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Stories of Fatherhood gathers more than a century of classic short stories about having, becoming, loving, and losing fathers.
 
Frank O’Connor’s hilarious tale of a tiny boy’s war against his paternal rival in “My Oedipus Complex” sits beside Ann Packer’s touching portrait of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child’s birth. At the other end of the lifespan, John Updike’s “My Father’s Tears,” Jim Shepard’s “The Mortality of Parents,” and William Maxwell’s “The man who lost his father” bring us face to face with a loss that is like no other.
In between, we encounter a full range of emotions connecting men and their offspring:  tenderness and devotion, anxiety and incomprehension, admiration and regret. Powerful patriarchs cast a long shadow in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”

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    A Hardback by Diana Secker Tesdell

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 13/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9780375712456, 978-0375712456
      ISBN10: 0375712453
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Stories of Fatherhood gathers more than a century of classic short stories about having, becoming, loving, and losing fathers.
       
      Frank O’Connor’s hilarious tale of a tiny boy’s war against his paternal rival in “My Oedipus Complex” sits beside Ann Packer’s touching portrait of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child’s birth. At the other end of the lifespan, John Updike’s “My Father’s Tears,” Jim Shepard’s “The Mortality of Parents,” and William Maxwell’s “The man who lost his father” bring us face to face with a loss that is like no other.
      In between, we encounter a full range of emotions connecting men and their offspring:  tenderness and devotion, anxiety and incomprehension, admiration and regret. Powerful patriarchs cast a long shadow in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”

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