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Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers
A devoted reader of autobiographies and memoirs, Roger J. Porter has observed in recent years a surprising number of memoirs by adult children whose fathers have led secret lives. Some of the fathers had second families; some had secret religious lives; others have been criminals, liars, or con men. Struck by the intensely human drama of secrecy and deception played out fo...more
Hardcover, 202 pages
Published
May 5th 2011
by Cornell University Press
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A fine line separates nuanced discussion of literary texts from an approach that simply explores interesting issues but presents no argument--or too many arguments. This book is the latter. Without doubt, memoirs that concern "the secret lives of fathers" raise ethical questions: Why did these fathers deceive their children? Why are the children writing about the deception? Porter provides a thorough discussion of worthy texts by Paul Auster, Mary Gordon, Germaine Greer, and several others, taki...more
Dec 11, 2011
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