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The Death of My Father the Pope

- A Memoir

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A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a paradox: to pay tribute, lay scorn upon, or pour a drink. A wrenching, dazzling, revelatory debut Weaving between the preparations for his father''s funeral and memories of life on both sides of the U.S.ΓÇôMexico border, Obed Silva chronicles his father''s lifelong battle with alcoholism and the havoc it wreaked on his family. Silva and his mother had come north across the border to escape his fatherΓÇÖs violent, drunken rages. His father had followed and danced dangerously in and out of the familyΓÇÖs life until he was arrested and deported back to Mexico, where he drank himself to death, one Carta Blanca at a time, at the age of forty-eight. Told with a wry cynicism, a profane, profound anger, an antic, brutally honest voice, and a hard-won classical frame of reference, Silva channels the heartbreak of mourning while wrestling with the resentment and frustration caused by addiction. The Death of My Father the Pope is a fluid and dynamic combination of memoir and an examination of the power of languageΓÇöand the introduction of a unique and powerful literary voice.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9780374539160
  • Format:
  • Inbunden
  • Sidor:
  • 304
  • Utgiven:
  • 7. december 2021
  • Mått:
  • 219x145x31 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 434 g.
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A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a paradox: to pay tribute, lay scorn upon, or pour a drink. A wrenching, dazzling, revelatory debut
Weaving between the preparations for his father''s funeral and memories of life on both sides of the U.S.ΓÇôMexico border, Obed Silva chronicles his father''s lifelong battle with alcoholism and the havoc it wreaked on his family. Silva and his mother had come north across the border to escape his fatherΓÇÖs violent, drunken rages. His father had followed and danced dangerously in and out of the familyΓÇÖs life until he was arrested and deported back to Mexico, where he drank himself to death, one Carta Blanca at a time, at the age of forty-eight.
Told with a wry cynicism, a profane, profound anger, an antic, brutally honest voice, and a hard-won classical frame of reference, Silva channels the heartbreak of mourning while wrestling with the resentment and frustration caused by addiction. The Death of My Father the Pope is a fluid and dynamic combination of memoir and an examination of the power of languageΓÇöand the introduction of a unique and powerful literary voice.

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