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My Son, My Son

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title My Son, My Son
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Howard Spring
Introduction by Michael Schmidt
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:656
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781784970772
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Head of Zeus
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publication Date 7 April 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

What a place it was, that dark little house that was two rooms up and two down... I don't remember to this day where we all slept, though there was a funeral now and then to thin us out. This is the powerful story of two hard-driven men - one a celebrated English novelist, the other a successful Irish entrepreneur - and of their sons, in whom are invested all their fathers' hopes and ambitions. Oliver Essex and Rory O'Riorden grow up as friends, but in the years after the Great War their fathers' lofty plans have unexpected consequences.

Author Biography

Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! - afterward reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951).

Reviews

A vigorous novel of frustrated lives. A story that is remorseless in its insistence on futility; pitiless as life itself * Times Literary Supplement * Mesmerising... 600 pages of astute observation about social division, loveless marriage, the Troubles, the errors of over-indulgent fatherhood and the upheavals of World War I make for a hugely irresistible and satisfying read' * Daily Mail *