{"product_id":"my-father-and-myself-isbn-9780940322127","title":"My Father and Myself","description":"\u003cb\u003eNYRB CLASSICS: An adult son and acclaimed author offers a heartfelt gay memoir about uncovering his late father’s secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A cross between Dickens’s \u003ci\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003c\/i\u003e, Rousseau’s \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e, and the new pornography.” \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDonald Windham, novelist and memoirist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWhen his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own—this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But Ackerley’s pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self—making \u003ci\u003eMy Father and Myself \u003c\/i\u003ea pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. This witty, sorrowful, and beautiful book is a classic of 20th-century memoir.\u003cb\u003eJ. R. Ackerley \u003c\/b\u003e(1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Listener\u003c\/i\u003e. His works include three memoirs, \u003ci\u003eHindoo Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Dog Tulip\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Father and Myself\u003c\/i\u003e, and a novel, \u003ci\u003eWe Think the World of You\u003c\/i\u003e (all available as New York Review Books).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eW.H. Auden\u003c\/b\u003e (1907—1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302747132133,"sku":"NP9780940322127","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322127.jpg?v=1767733261","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/my-father-and-myself-isbn-9780940322127","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}