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My father's fortune a life

British novelist Frayn travels the familiar territory of the father-son relationship. The elder Frayn was a self-made man, a roofing salesman with a trademark homburg hat, a stellar vocabulary, and charisma oozing from his pores. (All this in spite of a very modest upbringing- he and six other family members lived in just two rooms.) The younger Frayn serves up a detailed account of his father's early years, including the love-at-first-sight meeting with his beautiful bride-to-be, Vi. (The family is devastated when Vi dies of a heart attack at an early age). Frayn sees himself as slow-witted, unathletic, and sorely lacking in social skills, surely a great disappointment to his father, who dreamed of having a smart cricket player for a son. But he still manages to make his way to Cambridge and enjoy success in the world of words.

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  • "This is above all the story of Michael Frayn's father, the boy from a poor family, who overcame so many disadvantages to make a go of his life; who found happiness, had it snatched away from him, and in the end, after many difficulties, perhaps found it again. Father and son were in some ways alike, in others ridiculously different; and the journey back down the corridors of time is sometimes comic, sometimes painful, as Michael Frayn comes to see how much he has inherited from his father - and makes one or two surprising discoveries about both of them along the way."
  • "PLAYAWAY. This is above all the story of Michael Frayn's father, the boy from a poor family, who overcame so many disadvantages to make a go of his life; who found happiness, had it snatched away from him, and in the end, after many difficulties, perhaps found it again. Father and son were in some ways alike, in others ridiculously different; and the journey back down the corridors of time is sometimes comic, sometimes painful, as Michael Frayn comes to see how much he has inherited from his father - and makes one or two surprising discoveries about both of them along the way."
  • "British novelist Frayn travels the familiar territory of the father-son relationship. The elder Frayn was a self-made man, a roofing salesman with a trademark homburg hat, a stellar vocabulary, and charisma oozing from his pores. (All this in spite of a very modest upbringing- he and six other family members lived in just two rooms.) The younger Frayn serves up a detailed account of his father's early years, including the love-at-first-sight meeting with his beautiful bride-to-be, Vi. (The family is devastated when Vi dies of a heart attack at an early age). Frayn sees himself as slow-witted, unathletic, and sorely lacking in social skills, surely a great disappointment to his father, who dreamed of having a smart cricket player for a son. But he still manages to make his way to Cambridge and enjoy success in the world of words."@en
  • "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, even through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life."@en
  • "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, even through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. In My Father's Fortune, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn ..."@en

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
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  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en

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  • "My father's fortune a life, Michael Frayn"
  • "My father's fortune"
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  • "My father's fortune [a life]"

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