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After visiting friends : a son's story / Michael Hainey.

by Hainey, Michael, 1964-

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Scribner, 2013.

Hainey, Bob, -1970 -- Family.

Hainey, Michael, 1964-

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Fathers and sons -- Biography.

9781451676563 (hbk.)

1451676565 (hbk.)

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

299 p. : ill., facsims., geneal. table ; 24 cm.

Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, had been found dead near his car on Chicago's North Side of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone, leaving behind a young widow, two sons, a fractured family--and questions surrounding the mysterious nature of his death that would obsess Michael throughout adolescence and long into adulthood. Finally, roughly his father's age when he died, and a seasoned reporter himself, Michael set out to learn what happened that night.--Adapted from publisher description.

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