British Authors - 20th Century - Literary Biography, Fathers - Biography, Coming Out & Family Life

My Father and Myself

Name: My Father and Myself
Author: J.R. Ackerley
ISBN: 9780712652513

by J.R. Ackerley

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Overview

J.R. Ackerley's father was the Banana King, a successful importer of fruit and a hearty fellow-qualities little appreciated by his refined and literary son. On his death, however, he left a letter revealing that his life of respectable prosperity was a facade. Thus began what for Ackerley was an ongoing quest to comprehend a rather who amazed always just beyond his reach. My Father and Myself, described by its author as an "examining and self-examining book."