My Father's Footprints: A Memoir - Hardcover

McEnroe, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446529338 ISBN 13: 9780446529334

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Starting with the death of his father and chronicling backwards, the author examines their relationship in order to understand his dad, not just as a father, but as a man.

About this title

About the Author:

Colin McEnroe lives in West Hartford, Connecticut.

From Booklist:

Here's an interesting way to write a memoir: backwards. The author begins with the passing of his father, playwright Robert McEnroe, and moves back through the years. We see a relationship developing in reverse, beginning with the son, a grown man, taking care of his father. Gradually, father and son assume their traditional roles: the author is a boy, and his father is the protector. Because of its structure, this memoir is far more touching and emotional than many similar remembrances of lost loved ones. The author shows us his father as he was before his death, with failing body and mind, and then leads us back through the years to let us see the strong, intelligent man he used to be. We see everything the father once was, and this allows us to understand, and even (to some degree) feel the son's loss. David Pitt
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0446529338
• ISBN 13: 9780446529334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208