![]() ![]() But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir. Tom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. The novelist and playwright (whose Noises Off is currently playing in London) discusses his. As Frayn tries to see it through the eyes of his parents and the others who shaped his life, he comes to realise how little he ever knew or understood about them. A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, My Fathers Fortune sets out to rediscover that lost land before all trace of it finally disappears beyond recall. In My Father's Fortune, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn. ![]() For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny,"* turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story, to re-create the world that made him who he is Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary life lived by erring humans, which is always more extraordinary than people think. ![]()
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