I Had A Father: A Post-modern Autobiography
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ISBN: 0201581280 / Publisher: Da Capo Press, April 1993
The author looks back on childhood and his relationship with his enigmatic father, and attempts to learn more about both his father and his family heritage
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I Had a Father is a prize-winning novelist's journey in search of an elusive parent.Who is Lee R. Blaise? Furniture salesman of Montreal, Florida, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Springfield, Missouri, Manchester, New Hampshire, Hartford; drinker; Rotarian glad-hander; boxer and singer and sociopath; rampant lover; and perhaps genius.Even now, Blaise writes, "I don't know if my father was sane or disturbed, a victim or a killer. I don't even know if I am his only child." He brings to his journey a novelist's eye, a detective's methodology, and an evocation of place unparalleled in modern letters.
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