Gonville A Memoir (Hardcover)
| Author: Peter Birkenhead |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 1416598839
ISBN-13: 9781416598831
Sku: 211432662
Publish Date: 3/2/2010
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 9.25H x 6.25L x 1.25T
Pages:
256
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| "Gonville" is the story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charismatic, mortifying, thoughtful, violent, generous, and cruel father. |
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Traces the author's efforts to come to terms with a troubled childhood marked by his charismatic father's confusing dual personality, through which he engaged in violently abusive behaviors while outspokenly supporting a peaceful society.Gonville is the story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charismatic, mortifying, thoughtful, violent, generous, and cruel father. |
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Actor Peter Birkenhead's riveting memoir describes growing up in 1960s and 70s Long Island as the eldest son of a wildly erratic, deeply charismatic, periodically nudist, and frequently violent father. While Brikenhead's mother and younger siblings suffered the brunt of his father's rages, Peter learned to avoid becoming a target through mixture of comedy and distraction. Birkenhead captures the complexity of his relationship with his father, a man he both idolized and feared. Later in life he would have to deal with his own inherited bouts of fury, often directed at women. At turns horrifying and hilarious, GONVILLE was adapted from Birkenhead's one-man show, and the language has the immediacy of a private performance.
Actor Peter Birkenhead's riveting memoir describes growing up in 1960s and 70s Long Island as the eldest son of a wildly erratic, deeply charismatic, periodically nudist, and frequently violent father. While Brikenhead's mother and younger siblings suffered the brunt of his father's rages, Peter learned to avoid becoming a target through mixture of comedy and distraction. Birkenhead captures the complexity of his relationship with his father, a man he both idolized and feared. Later in life he would have to deal with his own inherited bouts of fury, often directed at women. At turns horrifying and hilarious, GONVILLE was adapted from Birkenhead's one-man show, and the language has the immediacy of a private performance.
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