Every Time We Say Goodbye

by Anna Blundy (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.19

  On 17th November 1989 Anna Blundy received a phonecall to say that her father, David Blundy, a foreign correspondant, had been shot reporting the war in El Salvador. In a way it was the phonecall she had been expecting all her life. Every time they said goodbye, she knew he might not return. Eight years later, in April 1997, Anna went to El Salvador to try to discover the truth about his death, and finally, after a decade of mourning, to come to terms with her loss. During her trip Anna, now a journalist herself, revisits her childhood and the world she and her father inhabited. Memories of the succession of lonely hotel bedrooms in exotic locations, the painful goodbyes, and the midnight phonecalls sometimes punctuated by the sound of gunfire. Every time she turned on the TV she imagined news of his death in some dusty foreign war. This is also an honest insight into the relationship between father and daughter - her fear of not fulfilling his expectations; of being supplanted by a new girlfriend or by the birth of a younger sister; of how her world collapsed the day when he died. This is a sharp but beautifully written account interweaving humour and bittersweet recollection.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.19

  Blundy journeys to discover the fate of her father, the investigative journalist David Blundy, who was shot and killed in San Salvador in 1989. She also recounts her childhood spent hanging out with hacks in New York hotels, how she lost her father to one news story or foreign country after another, and how she came to terms with his loss.