In the early times : a life reframed
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Published
New York : Crown, [2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Arcadia Public Library - Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Crown, [2022].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Is the father I wanted the father my children want me to be, too? Or is the father I got the father I've inevitably become? Almost everyone yearns to know their parents more thoroughly before they die, to solve some of those lifelong mysteries. Maybe, just maybe, those answers will help you live your own life. But life doesn't stop to wait. In his fifties, writer Tad Friend is grappling with being a husband and father and trying to grasp who he is as a son. Torn between two families, he careens between two stages in life. On some days he feels vigorous, on the brink of greatness when he plays tournament squash. On others, he feels distinctly old, troubled by his yawning distance from millennial sensibilities or by his own face in the mirror, by a grimace that's so like his father's. Theodore Friend, an erudite historian and the former president of Swarthmore College, was gregarious and charming with strangers yet cerebral with his children. Tad writes that "trying to reach him in any deeper way always felt like ice fishing." Yet now Tad's father, known to his family as Day, seems concerned chiefly with the flavor of ice cream in his bowl and, when pushed, interested only in reconsidering his view of Franklin Roosevelt. Then Tad finds his father's files, a trove of passionate confessions that reveals a man entirely different from and more complex than the exasperatingly logical father Day was so determined to be. It turns out that Tad has been behaving self-destructively in the same way Day was--a secret each kept from everyone, even themselves. These discoveries make Tad reconsider his own role, both as a father and a son. But is it too late for both of them?"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Friend, T. (2022). In the early times: a life reframed (First edition.). Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Friend, Tad. 2022. In the Early Times: A Life Reframed. Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Friend, Tad. In the Early Times: A Life Reframed Crown, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Friend, Tad. In the Early Times: A Life Reframed First edition., Crown, 2022.
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