My Father And Myself (Nyrb Classics S): 0

by J. R. Ackerley (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $15.43

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $3.30

  J.R. Ackerley was born into a seemingly bourgeois family living in Richmond, Surrey. His mother was a frail ex-actress, his father a well-to-do, heavily moustached Edwardian paterfamilias. Only after his father's death did the author discover that Dad had long maintained a mistress and three daughters in Barnes. In unravelling the facts behind his father's duplicity - which include an odd relationship as a trooper with a mysterious Count de Gallatin and eccentric entry into the banana business - Ackerley also reveals much of himself: from schoolboy to frontline subaltern, from shiftless student to tireless searcher for the ideal friend in the twilight of homosexual London. The author also wrote Hindoo Holiday , My Dog Tulip , My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J.R. Ackerley and We Think the World of You .