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3124724My Fathers Fortunehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/my-fathers-fortune-9781429918732/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2299311/0e4dc3a2-3d2f-46f8-9c92-e7e0fdc6718a.jpg?v=638383785593600000214261MXNHenry Holt and Co.InStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny," turns his humor and narrative genius on his own familys story, to re-create the world that made him who he is</strong></p><p>Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary life lived by erring humans, which is always more extraordinary than people think. In <em>My Fathers Fortune</em>, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn.</p><p>A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life.</p><p>Tom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir.</p><p> Anthony Burgess</p>...3060416My Fathers Fortune214261https://www.gandhi.com.mx/my-fathers-fortune-9781429918732/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2299311/0e4dc3a2-3d2f-46f8-9c92-e7e0fdc6718a.jpg?v=638383785593600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119781429918732_W3siaWQiOiI3ZjQ4ZTgzOS02MTBkLTQzMjUtODc2Mi00Y2Y3YjVkZmQ5MmUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI1MiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQ2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDEtMThUMDQ6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781429918732_<p><strong>For the first time, Michael Frayn, the master of what is seriously funny, turns his humor and narrative genius on his own familys story, to re-create the world that made him who he is</strong></p><p>Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary life lived by erring humans, which is always more extraordinary than people think. In <em>My Fathers Fortune</em>, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn.</p><p>A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life.</p><p>Tom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir.</p><p> Anthony Burgess</p>(*_*)9781429918732_<p><strong>For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny," turns his humor and narrative genius on his own familys story, to re-create the world that made him who he is</strong></p><p>Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary life lived by erring humans, which is always more extraordinary than people think. In <em>My Fathers Fortune</em>, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn.</p><p>A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life.</p><p>Tom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir.</p><p> Anthony Burgess</p>...9781429918732_Henry Holt and Co.libro_electonico_1bf1f87e-8512-45b6-8cdb-00a623bfd5c0_9781429918732;9781429918732_9781429918732Michael FraynInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/macmillan-epub-e7198be2-f48d-484b-af38-fd2380762dea.epub2011-02-15T00:00:00+00:00Henry Holt and Co.