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Epilogue - A Memoir

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Description for Epilogue - A Memoir Paperback. This remarkable memoir is written with extraordinary care, intelligence, and honesty. . . . In short, it s fully alive. Phillip Lopate" Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139. Weight in Grams: 666.

For Will Boast, what looked like the end turned out to be a new beginning. After losing his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father’s estate, Boast stumbles upon documents revealing a closely guarded secret his father had meant to keep: he’d had another family entirely, a wife and two sons.

Setting out to find his half-brothers, Boast struggles to reconcile their family history with his own and to begin a chapter of his life he never imagined. “Riveting, soulful, and courageously told” (Maggie ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490439
SKU
V9781631490439
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About Will Boast
Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. He won the Iowa Short Fiction Award for his story collection, Power Ballads, and the Rome Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best New American Voices, and elsewhere. He divides his time between Chicago and Brooklyn, New ... Read more

Reviews for Epilogue - A Memoir
"Wise, charming and deeply moving."
Leslie Jamison - The New York Times Book Review "It is during these unspoken moments that the author deftly captures the fleeting intimacy between father and son…The power of Epilogue comes in Boast’s brave and candid recounting of his losses—and how this accumulated grief reshapes the author and his beliefs of what can make ... Read more

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