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Our Father Who Wasn't There .David Carlin
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Author: David Carlin
Number of Pages: 240 pages
Published Date: 01 Jul 2010
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Publication Country: Carlton North, Australia
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781921640254
Download Link: Our Father Who Wasn't There
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When David Carlin was only six months old, his father, Brian, died. It was the 1960s in isolated Western Australia, a place in which emotions were discreetly veiled, women did not attend funerals, and suicide was a sin. Brian became a mysteriously absent figure in David's family story, hardly spoken of again. As an adult, David yearns to conjure up his father, to uncover what led to his death at his own hand. Gradually, he begins to piece together Brian's story from the faltering memories of friends and relatives, and from the voices and incidents that emerge from Brian's medical records. Through David, Brian's story starts to fill out - up rise the hessian-walled house of his childhood on the edge of the wheat belt during the Depression, the outposts of heady undergraduate bohemia in late-1940s Perth, Brian's happily married life and a brilliant career. But there also rises a darkness - a damaging undertow of electric-shock therapy, insulin comas, and whispered wartime events. In this memoir, David moves like a ghost through time and place, deftly weaving a story from what he has always known, and from all that he will never know.
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Our Father Who Wasn't There .David Carlin
Author: David Carlin
Number of Pages: 240 pages
Published Date: 01 Jul 2010
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Publication Country: Carlton North, Australia
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781921640254
Download Link: Our Father Who Wasn't There
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When David Carlin was only six months old, his father, Brian, died. It was the 1960s in isolated Western Australia, a place in which emotions were discreetly veiled, women did not attend funerals, and suicide was a sin. Brian became a mysteriously absent figure in David's family story, hardly spoken of again. As an adult, David yearns to conjure up his father, to uncover what led to his death at his own hand. Gradually, he begins to piece together Brian's story from the faltering memories of friends and relatives, and from the voices and incidents that emerge from Brian's medical records. Through David, Brian's story starts to fill out - up rise the hessian-walled house of his childhood on the edge of the wheat belt during the Depression, the outposts of heady undergraduate bohemia in late-1940s Perth, Brian's happily married life and a brilliant career. But there also rises a darkness - a damaging undertow of electric-shock therapy, insulin comas, and whispered wartime events. In this memoir, David moves like a ghost through time and place, deftly weaving a story from what he has always known, and from all that he will never know.
Read online Our Father Who Wasn't There Buy Our Father Who Wasn't There Download and read Our Father Who Wasn't There ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Our Father Who Wasn't There