My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley Paperback Book

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Author: J. R. Ackerley

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: Sep 1999

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Specific Groups - Male Gay Studies

Retail Price: $17.95

Pages: 280

Synopsis

When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own—this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. But Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. This witty, sorrowful, and beautiful book is a classic of twentieth-century memoir.

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