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Father and I Book
In an increasingly crowded marketplace, novelist Carlo Gebler's account of his relationship with his puritanical, damaged father stands out as a minor masterpiece. Ernest Gebler, in thrall to Stalin, wrote the hugely successful The Plymouth Adventure, based on the Pilgrim Fathers, which was made into a Hollywood picture. He continued to write, but his second wife (and Carlo's mother), Edna O'Brien, soon achieved a success that eclipsed his own. After he took to claiming the authorship of her first two books, she left him. And Carlo, along with brother Sasha, cruelly bore the brunt for her "degenerate genes". That Carlo Gebler's family was a mess of secrets, miscommunications and bitterness only makes them a typical family. However, his fashioning of the family history is poetic, … read more...
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