{"product_id":"my-fathers-fortune-a-life-9781250002341","title":"My Father's Fortune: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Ackerley Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn \"makes the family memoir his own\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos 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. As Peter Kemp wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London), \"Frayn has never written with more searching brilliance than in his quest for his past.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Frayn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.46w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250002341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling \u003ci\u003eHeadlong\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and \u003ci\u003eSpies\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. Michael Frayn is also the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Father's Fortune: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy: A Play\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Landing on the Sun: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Trick of It: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He has also written fifteen plays, among them \u003ci\u003eNoises Off\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCopenhagen\u003c\/i\u003e, which won three Tony Awards in 1999. He lives just south of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44115559481459,"sku":"9.78125E+12","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f3b19bba-23cf-4398-a181-aec906cb7078.jpg?v=1764250633","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/my-fathers-fortune-a-life-9781250002341","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}