Full name: The Bill from My Father: A Memoir

Author: Bernard Cooper Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780743249638 0743249623

Edward Cooper is a hard man to know.Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictate the always uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Balding, octogenarian, and partial to a polyester jumpsuit, Edward Cooper makes an unlikely literary muse. But to his son he looms larger than life, an overwhelming and baffling presence. Edward's ambivalent regard for his son is the springboard from which this deeply intelligent memoir takes flight. By the time the author receives his inheritance (which includes a message his father taped to the underside of a safe deposit box), and sees the surprising epitaph inscribed on his father's headstone, The Bill from My Father has become a penetrating meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love. Similar books: Kiss Me Like A Stranger by Gene Wilder Ron Jeremy by Ron Jeremy Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin Looking Back by Lois Lowry In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda Then Again by Diane Keaton Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski Little Girl Lost by Drew Barrymore When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls