The Resource Epilogue : a memoir, Will Boast
Epilogue : a memoir, Will Boast
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- Summary
- "Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: He'd had another family before Will's--a wife and two sons in England. This revelation leads to a flood of new questions. Did his father abandon this first family, or was he pushed away? Still reeling from loss, Boast is forced to reconsider the fundamental truths of his childhood and to look for traces of the man his father might truly have been. Setting out in search of his half brothers, he attempts to reconcile their family history with his own, testing each childhood memory under the weight of his father's secret. Moving between the Midwest and England, from scenes of his youth to the tentative discovery of his new family, Boast writes with visceral beauty about grief, memory, and his slow and tender journey to a new kind of love. With the piercing gaze of a novelist, Boast transforms the pain and confusion of his family history into an achingly poignant portrait of resilience, revising the stories he's inherited to refashion both his past and his present. Heartbreaking and luminous, Epilogue is the stunning account of a young man's struggle to understand all that he has lost and found, and to forge a new life for himself along the way"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 281 pages
- Contents
-
- Prologue: Pain
- Comedians
- The queen on the frozen tundra
- Epilogue
- Exes
- Kismet
- Discretion
- Near misses
- England, why England?
- Stranger
- Relics
- Lectures
- Strangers
- Hostage
- A balancing act
- Overdue
- Empty threats
- One of the lads
- Sad stories
- Brighton
- Ambrosia
- Archaeology
- The family seat
- Buried
- Home
- Revision
- Isbn
- 9780871403810
- Label
- Epilogue : a memoir
- Title
- Epilogue
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Will Boast
- Subject
-
- Wisconsin -- Biography
- trueYoung men -- United States -- Biography
- trueAmericans in England
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Boast, Will
- trueBoast, Will
- Boast, Will -- Childhood and youth
- Boast, Will -- Family
- England -- Biography
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily and relationships -- General
- Family secrets
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFathers -- Death
- Fathers and sons
- trueFathers and sons
- trueHalf brothers
- trueInheritance and succession, Ficiton
- Ireland -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Relationships | Family
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: He'd had another family before Will's--a wife and two sons in England. This revelation leads to a flood of new questions. Did his father abandon this first family, or was he pushed away? Still reeling from loss, Boast is forced to reconsider the fundamental truths of his childhood and to look for traces of the man his father might truly have been. Setting out in search of his half brothers, he attempts to reconcile their family history with his own, testing each childhood memory under the weight of his father's secret. Moving between the Midwest and England, from scenes of his youth to the tentative discovery of his new family, Boast writes with visceral beauty about grief, memory, and his slow and tender journey to a new kind of love. With the piercing gaze of a novelist, Boast transforms the pain and confusion of his family history into an achingly poignant portrait of resilience, revising the stories he's inherited to refashion both his past and his present. Heartbreaking and luminous, Epilogue is the stunning account of a young man's struggle to understand all that he has lost and found, and to forge a new life for himself along the way"--Provided by publisher
- Summary
- The author offers an account of how, after his father, the last remaining member of his immediate family, died, he discovered while settling the estate in Wisconsin that the man he thought he knew actually had had a secret family in England prior to the one he brought to America, a revelation that prompted the author to seek out this new-found family
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10356188
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Boast, Will
- Dewey number
-
- 818/.603
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3602.O19
- LC item number
- Z46 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Boast, Will
- Boast, Will
- Boast, Will
- Fathers and sons
- Family secrets
- Wisconsin
- England
- Ireland
- Authors, American
- Young men
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Epilogue : a memoir, Will Boast
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: Pain -- Comedians -- The queen on the frozen tundra -- Epilogue -- Exes -- Kismet -- Discretion -- Near misses -- England, why England? -- Stranger -- Relics -- Lectures -- Strangers -- Hostage -- A balancing act -- Overdue -- Empty threats -- One of the lads -- Sad stories -- Brighton -- Ambrosia -- Archaeology -- The family seat -- Buried -- Home -- Revision
- Control code
- 20268636
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 281 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871403810
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014023741
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Label
- Epilogue : a memoir, Will Boast
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: Pain -- Comedians -- The queen on the frozen tundra -- Epilogue -- Exes -- Kismet -- Discretion -- Near misses -- England, why England? -- Stranger -- Relics -- Lectures -- Strangers -- Hostage -- A balancing act -- Overdue -- Empty threats -- One of the lads -- Sad stories -- Brighton -- Ambrosia -- Archaeology -- The family seat -- Buried -- Home -- Revision
- Control code
- 20268636
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 281 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871403810
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014023741
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
Subject
- Wisconsin -- Biography
- trueYoung men -- United States -- Biography
- trueAmericans in England
- Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Boast, Will
- trueBoast, Will
- Boast, Will -- Childhood and youth
- Boast, Will -- Family
- England -- Biography
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily and relationships -- General
- Family secrets
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFathers -- Death
- Fathers and sons
- trueFathers and sons
- trueHalf brothers
- trueInheritance and succession, Ficiton
- Ireland -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Relationships | Family
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