Dad

by William Wharton

Hardcover, 1981

Status

Available

Call number

PS3573.H32 D3

Publication

Alfred A. Knopf (1981), Edition: 1st, 449 pages

Description

John Tremont, a middle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside after she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds her shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is unable to cope, who begins to fail, to slip away from life. Joined by his nineteen-year-old son, John suddenly becomes enmeshed in the frightening, consuming, endless minutiae of caring for a beloved, dying parent. He also finds himself inescapably confronting his own middle age, jammed between his son's feckless impatience to get on with his life and his father's heartbreaking willingness to let go. A story of the love that binds generations, Dad celebrates the universe of possibilities within every individual life.

Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — 1982)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Fiction — 1981)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1981

ISBN

0394510976 / 9780394510972

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