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000436927 1001_ $$aFrayn, Michael.
000436927 24510 $$aMy father's fortune :$$ba life /$$cMichael Frayn.
000436927 250__ $$a1st ed.
000436927 260__ $$aNew York :$$bMetropolitan Books,$$c2010.
000436927 300__ $$a273 p. :$$bill. ;$$c22 cm.
000436927 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000436927 520__ $$aWhether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary life lived by erring humans, which is always more extraordinary than people think. In My Father's Fortune, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. Tom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir.
000436927 60010 $$aFrayn, Michael$$xFamily.
000436927 60010 $$aFrayn, Tommy.
000436927 650_0 $$aAuthors, English$$y20th century$$vBiography.
000436927 650_0 $$aFathers and sons$$zGreat Britain$$vBiography.
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