All Happy Families: A Memoir

All Happy Families: A Memoir Hervé Le Tellier Wymiary : 20,07 x 13,21 Oprawa : Miękka Liczba stron : 192 Data wydania : 2019.03.26 Wydawnictwo : Other Press (NY) ISBN : 9781590519370 GONCOURT PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships. Herv� Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child--he was not deprived or beaten or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping driven by their even greater love of life. Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's disease Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family. Abandoned early by his father and raised in part by his grandparents he was profoundly affected by his relationship with his mother a troubled woman with damaging views on love. In this perceptive deeply personal account Le Tellier attempts to look back on trying times without anger or regret and sometimes even with humor.