Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father
π Fiction
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2015
π Penguin Books Ltd
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Kid gloves : a voyage round my father
β Scribed by Mars-Jones, Adam
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- Penguin Books Ltd;Particular Books
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- 2015
- Tongue
- English
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- 247
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- Library
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NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015
When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship.
In the aftermath of an unlooked-for intimacy, Mars-Jones has written a book devoted to particular emotions and events. Kid Gloves is a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself - and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years before, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation, taking the homophobic bull by the horns. The supporting cast includes Ian Fleming, the...
β¦ Subjects
Mars-Jones, Adam, -- 1954- -- Family.;Aging parents -- Care.;Aging parents -- Family relationships.;Mars-Jones, Adam, -- 1954-;Families.
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