The bill from my father : a memoir / Bernard Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Bernard, 1951-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooper, Bernard, 1951---Family.

Cooper, Bernard.

Cooper, Bernard, 1951---Childhood and youth.

Cooper, Bernard, 1951-.

Authors, American--20th century--Family relationships.

Authors, American.

Families.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Gay men--United States--Biography.

Gay men.

United States.

Fathers and sons--United States.

Fathers and sons.

Authors, American--Family relationships.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Memoirs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 240 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2006]

Summary:

A contemporary account of growing up and coming to terms with a bewildering father. Dour and exuberant by turns, Edward Cooper's moods dictated the always uncertain climate of the household. As the book begins, Bernard and his father are the last remaining members of the family that once included his mother and three older brothers. Now retired and living in a run-down trailer, Edward Cooper had once been a celebrated divorce attorney. An expert at "the dissolution of human relationships," the elder Cooper is slowly succumbing to dementia. As the author attempts to forge a coherent picture of the family history, he discovers some peculiar documents involving lawsuits against other family members, and recalls an itemized bill his father once sent him for the cost of his upbringing. By the time the author receives his inheritance, the book has become a meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love.--From publisher description.

Contents:

First Words

My Father's Jumpsuit

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

The Shortest Distance Between Two Points

One Art

Winner Take Nothing

D-L-R-O-W

This Side Up

The Bill from My Father

Afterlife

Rest in Peace.

Notes:

Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Memoir/Biography, Winner, 2007

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0743249623

9780743249621

0743249631

9780743249638

OCLC:

61362171

Publisher Number:

9780743249621

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