Publication

2014 - Penguin Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

100,000 words, Guess

Page Count

400 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC941.08209/2

Description

The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of letters and papers she left behind, he set out to reconstruct just who his parents had been. In doing so, he did much more than trace the remarkable story of a reluctant international banker, a secretive former nun, and the life they shared; he also gained extraordinary insight into his own nature and a deeper understanding of the universal push-pull of family love-and family loss. Part detective work, part evocation of character, this is, above all, compelling storytelling.

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  • Family romancePenguin Books2014

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