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My Father's Heart
Steve McKee
其他書名
A Son's Reckoning with the Legacy of Heart Disease
出版
Hachette Books
, 2008-12-11
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / Heart
ISBN
0786744081
9780786744084
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lJOTGg5piK8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Sixteen-year-old Steve McKee watched his father die of a heart attack on the couch in their TV room. A lifelong smoker and workaholic, John McKee had been floored by a heart attack five years earlier. The McKee clan-perhaps including a demoralized John himself-had long been waiting for the other shoe to drop. At age fifty-two, Steve McKee learned that he was his father's son more than he had ever hoped-he, too, has serious cardiovascular disease. Haunted by his father's seeming surrender to the condition, McKee set out to find the man who died before the son could know him. In so doing, what might he, Steve McKee, learn of himself? Chronicling the disorienting first days following John McKee's death,
My Father's Heart
is an extraordinary story of an all-too-ordinary scenario: A father dies, a son remains, and the loss casts a long shadow across a generation. Rich in evocative detail of time, place, and family, it is a powerful memoir of love, forgiveness, and finding oneself.