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In My Father's Footsteps: A Memoir
In My Father's Footsteps: A Memoir
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William Matthews was a much-admired, award-winning poet and teacher who lived hard and died suddenly in 1997 at the age of fifty-five. He was a jazz fan, a wit and raconteur, a connoisseur of fine food and wine, and a thrice-married womanizer.
This clear-eyed, often wryly funny memoir pays homage to a charismatic father as the son struggles to step out from his considerable shadow. In examining his father's death (and life), Sebastian Matthews explores his own chaotic past. A child of divorce, he was shuttled throughout his boyhood between parents and many geographies. In a confusing symbiotic time between Bill's marriages, the teenage son and his father were roommates and drinking buddies--I took care of him; he parented me. Later came the son's wanderings, the failed commitments.
Finally Sebastian learns to confront Bill's mixed legacy. Striving to emulate the best of that sad, happy man, he discovers new definitions of home, love, and marriage.
Author: Sebastian Matthews
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/17/2004
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780393338133
This clear-eyed, often wryly funny memoir pays homage to a charismatic father as the son struggles to step out from his considerable shadow. In examining his father's death (and life), Sebastian Matthews explores his own chaotic past. A child of divorce, he was shuttled throughout his boyhood between parents and many geographies. In a confusing symbiotic time between Bill's marriages, the teenage son and his father were roommates and drinking buddies--I took care of him; he parented me. Later came the son's wanderings, the failed commitments.
Finally Sebastian learns to confront Bill's mixed legacy. Striving to emulate the best of that sad, happy man, he discovers new definitions of home, love, and marriage.
Author: Sebastian Matthews
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/17/2004
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780393338133
About the Author
Matthews, Sebastian: - Sebastian Matthews, writer, poet, and teacher at Warren Wilson College, is the editor of a new literary journal, Rivendell. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
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