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The critically acclaimed author of Now It's Time to Say Goodbye offers a thoughful biography of his father's tumultuous childhood and youth, describing his childhood in a poverty-stricken Long Island home with an abusive mother and alcoholic father, his move to his uncle's farm in upstate New York, and his difficult choice between his broken family and his future.
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2 editions- Other · English · 2004Granta · 229 pages · 9781862076419
- Other · English · 2003Houghton Mifflin · 229 pages · 9780618251285
FictionPoor familiesYoung menUnclesBoysFarm lifeProblem familiesBroken homes