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John Tremont, a middle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside after she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds her shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is unable to cope, who begins to fail, to slip away from life. Joined by his nineteen-year-old son, John suddenly becomes enmeshed in the frightening, consuming, endless minutiae of caring for a beloved, dying parent. He also finds himself inescapably confronting his own middle age, jammed between his son's feckless impatience to get on with his life and his father's heartbreaking willingness to let go. A story of the love that binds generations, Dad celebrates the universe of possibilities within every individual life.
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A self-described painter who writes, William Wharton is the pen name for the author of two memoirs—Houseboat on the Seine and Ever After—as well as eight novels—Birdy, Dad, A Midnight Clear, Scumbler, Pride, Tidings, Franky Furbo, and Last Lovers. His works have been acclaimed worldwide and have been translated into over fifteen languages.
Brilliantly constructed, immediate and moving, painful and funny, and finally deeply cathartic. -- Allen Lacy, San Francisco Chronicle
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0140062300
- ISBN 13 9780140062304
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 441 pages. Cover worn and chipped on frontJohn Tremont, a mid dle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside a fter she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds h er shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is una ble to cope, who begins to fail, to slip away from life. Joined b y his nineteen-year-old son, John suddenly becomes enmeshed in th e frightening, consuming, endless minutiae of caring for a belove d, dying parent. He also finds himself inescapably confronting hi s own middle age, jammed between his son's feckless impatience to get on with his life and his father's heartbreaking willingness to let go. A story of the love that binds generations, Dad celebr ates the universe of possibilities within every individual life. Seller Inventory # 3158w
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Book Description Condition: Fair. When first his mother, then his father, become ill, John tremont attempts to sort out their affairs and obtain the best care he can for them. But the book is about so much more than that; it's about the relationships between fathers and sons, about coming to terms with a parent's infirmity and mortality, about letting go, accepting new roles within the family, and realizing that, when all's said and done, your parents are just people with flaws like everyone else. but most of all, DAD is about the final days of Jack Tremont, John's father, and how much John, and everyone else, loved him. 441 pages. Seller Inventory # 1262346
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