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Dad

Published
May 1981
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General Fiction General Fiction
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432

About This Book

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.

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Dec 1989 Avon ISBN 0380585944
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Jul 1996 William Morrow ISBN 155704256X
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First Edition May 1981 Knopf ISBN 0394510976
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Mar 2013 Harper ISBN B00AXXUA9U
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