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This is a used book that has been loved and read by a previous owner. This book shows signs of wear and has some creasing but remains a good readable copy. May not contain codes CDs Inserts that is included with the book. *Your satisfaction is our 1 priority so please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns about your purchase. Thank you for choosing to shop with us and happy reading!
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New York. 1979. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket with a few Tape-Repaired Tears. 0394410521. 275 pages. hardcover. Signed by the Author. keywords: Autobiography America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In this extraordinary menoir, the author has undertaken a search for the truth in a life lived by lies. The life was that of Duke Wolff, his father, who managed to live like a prince, usually on the means of a pauper. Duke was a con man, brilliant, charming, but energized by outrageous schemes and aspirations. Born into a family of position and privilege, but possessed by an appetite for caprice, he pushed beyond limits of all kinds, and eventually beyond the limits of the law. Not long after his third release from prison, he died in a small, barren apartment at the edge of the Pacific, in a seedy California town favoured by stewardesses on the move and old-timers down on their luck. To the author, Duke was 'a bad man and a good father'. With compassion and exquisite honesty, he had recaptured the paradox of his father's turbulent life, and has resurrected the crises of his own childhood ride on a rake's roller coaster. Mr. Wolff has returned his father, his own childhood and adolescence to life. Coming to terms with his conflicting emotions-anger, pride, pity, humiliation, gratitude and abiding love-about Duke, he touches the truth about many fathers and many sons. This book will take its place among the classics of American memoirs. inventory #7845.
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Very Good in Frayed & Chipped jacket. First Edition. 275pp. Photos. Biography of the author's father, 'Duke' Wolff, who lived a life of scheming, lies, and lawlessness, yet was a 'good father'. DJ has a chip on the back and a repaired tear. (loc 272)
