Self Abuse: Love, Loss and Growing Up

by J Self (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.27

  At 35, to his distress, Jonathan Self found that he had become the very thing he never wanted to be: an absent father with three young children - one in the UK and two in Australia.;In this moving, closely observed and often comic memoir the author traces three generations of dysfunctional family life and his own determination not to repeat the patterns of the past or to let his children down. Self Abuse is a gripping and emotional saga which deals with difficult subjects - the angst of a separated father, failed relationships, domestic violence, sexual abuse, alcohol and drug addiction. It is told with sensitivity, wry humour and honesty. Ultimately it is a story filled with hope and love.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.27

  At 35, despite his determination to be different from his parents, Jonathan Self found his life echoing theirs: he was a twice-divorced absent father with three young children, one in the UK and two in Australia. In this frank, moving and often funny memoir, Self documents his efforts to break the family mould and become a different kind of parent. Highly personal in its discussion of alcohol, drug and sexual abuse and filled with extraordinary characters and events, SELF ABUSE also tells a more universal story - a story about best intentions goig awry, of the pain of being separated from one's children, and of the deep impact parent's actions have on their children lives. Ultimately, SELF ABUSE is a story filled with love and hope.