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Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize Award-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn makes the family memoir his own (The Daily Telegraph) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of…
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- Author: Michael Frayn
- Publisher: Picador USA
- ISBN-10: 1250002346
- ISBN-13: 9781250002341
- Format: 13.9 x 20.8 x 1.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize
Award-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn makes the family memoir his own (The Daily Telegraph) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. As Peter Kemp wrote in The Sunday Times (London), Frayn has never written with more searching brilliance than in his quest for his past.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: Michael Frayn
- Publisher: Picador USA
- ISBN-10: 1250002346
- ISBN-13: 9781250002341
- Format: 13.9 x 20.8 x 1.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize
Award-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn makes the family memoir his own (The Daily Telegraph) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. As Peter Kemp wrote in The Sunday Times (London), Frayn has never written with more searching brilliance than in his quest for his past.
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