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Boast, Will.
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Boast, Will.
Boast, Will -- Family.
Boast, Will -- Childhood and youth.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
Family secrets -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Young men -- United States -- Biography.
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England -- Biography.
Ireland -- Biography.
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Boast, Will.
Boast, Will.
Boast, Will -- Family.
Boast, Will -- Childhood and youth.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
Family secrets -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Young men -- United States -- Biography.
Wisconsin -- Biography.
England -- Biography.
Ireland -- Biography.
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Epilogue : a memoir / Will
Boast
.
by
Boast
, Will.
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, c2014.
Call #:
306.874 B662e
Subjects
Boast
, Will.
Boast
, Will -- Family.
Boast
, Will -- Childhood and youth.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
Family secrets -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Young men -- United States -- Biography.
Wisconsin -- Biography.
England -- Biography.
Ireland -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780871403810 (hc.)
0871403811 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
281 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Prologue: Pain -- Comedians -- The queen on the frozen tundra -- Epilogue -- Exes -- Kismet -- Discretion -- Near misses -- England, why England? -- Stranger -- Relics -- Lectures -- Strangers -- Hostage -- A balancing act -- Overdue -- Empty threats -- One of the lads -- Sad stories -- Brighton -- Ambrosia -- Archaeology -- The family seat -- Buried -- Home -- Revision.
Summary:
"Will
Boast
thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will
Boast
finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate,
Boast
is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: He'd had another family before Will's -- a wife and two sons in England. This revelation leads to a flood of new questions. Did his father abandon this first family, or was he pushed away? Still reeling from loss,
Boast
is forced to reconsider the fundamental truths of his childhood and to look for traces of the man his father might truly have been. Setting out in search of his half brothers, he attempts to reconcile their family history with his own, testing each childhood memory under the weight of his father's secret. Moving between the Midwest and England, from scenes of his youth to the tentative discovery of his new family,
Boast
writes with visceral beauty about grief, memory, and his slow and tender journey to a new kind of love. With the piercing gaze of a novelist,
Boast
transforms the pain and confusion of his family history into an achingly poignant portrait of resilience, revising the stories he's inherited to refashion both his past and his present. The account of a young man's struggle to understand all that he has lost and found, and to forge a new life for himself along the way. Will
Boast
was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. He is the author of a short story collection, Power Ballads. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best New American Voices, and elsewhere"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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Bedford Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
306.874 B662e
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