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A Father's Words
Richard Stern
其他書名
A Novel
出版Arbor House, 1986
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Family Life / General
ISBN08779579169780877957911
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=af4NAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this portrait of fatherhood in late middle age, Stern shows how the stresses of a father's affection and tyranny cannot be handled by reason or words, but through the wrenching process of self-understanding. Cyrus Riemer publishes a science newsletter in Chicago while struggling with mortality, changes of fortune, his ex-wife and lover, and his four grown children. Preoccupied with the search for truth, unable to accept his family on their own terms, and insistent on playing relationships his way, he seeks to understand the truth about his life. He wants happiness for his son Jack, who evades his father's attempts to nag him into making more of himself, and evades the criticisms of his daughter who berates him for looking for truth in books and museums instead of within himself. But eventually both life and his children propel him into a growing awareness of himself, his children, and the woman he loves. ISBN 0-87795-791-6 : $14.95.