The Story of My Father

Author(s): Sue Miller

Biography & Memoir

An unforgettable book about fathers and daughters from bestselling novelist Sue Miller In the spring of 1986, Sue Miller found herself more and more deeply involved in the caring of her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. The Story of My Father, her first work of non-fiction, is a profound, deeply-moving account of her father's final days and her own response to his decline. With care, restraint and consummate skill, Miller writes of her struggles to be fully with her father in his illness while confronting her own terror of abandonment, and eventually the long, hard work of grieving for him. And through this candid, painful record, she offers a rigorous, compassionate inventory of two lives, a powerful meditation on the variable nature of memory and the difficulty of weaving a truthful narrative from the threads of a dissolving life. This is a truly remarkable book from one of America's best-loved authors. About the Author: Sue Miller is the bestselling author of The World Below, While I Was Gone, and many other novels. She lives in the USA.

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Huge marketing and publicity campaign For all fans of Blake Morrison's And When Did You Last See Your Father? By the author of The World Below and While I was Gone

'Beautifully written and moving ... Every relative of an Alzheimer's patient feels this guilt, here painfully anatomised ... The Story of My Father is the best book of its genre I have ever read' Sunday Telegraph 'Much more than a memoir, her book is an exploration of the nature of self and an extraordinary testament to an extraordinary love' Independent 'A cool, lucid, often painfully frank account ... remarkable for its honesty and courage, and for the muted gallantry with which its subject met the loss of everything that made him human' Daily Telegraph 'You do not need an interest in Alzheimer's to be moved by this. You just need to have a parent you love' The Times Play Magazine

General Fields

  • : 9780747565222
  • : bloom
  • : bloom
  • : 03 May 2004
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 208
  • : AUG04
  • : Paperback
  • : Sue Miller