Read Alikes
Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft
by Simon Houpt
My Life in France
by Julia Child
Book of Lost Books
by Stuart Kelly
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dale Brown
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the
by Brad Matsen
Cancer Vixen
by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Epileptic
by Daniel B
The 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie
by Andrew Eames
Human cargo
by Caroline Moorehead
The Ode Less Travelled
by Stephen Fry
Queen of the Oddballs
by Hillary Carlip
Poet’s Choice
by Edward Hirsch
Encyclopedia of an ordinary life : volume one
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
To rule the waves : how the British Navy shaped the modern world
by Arthur Herman
Tab Hunter confidential : the making of a movie star
by Tab Hunter
Truck : a love story
by Michael Perry
The United States of Arugula : how we became a gourmet nation
by David Kamp
River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
by Candice Millard
Reading Like a Writer
by Francine Prose
Best American Essays of 2006
by Lauren Slater, guest ed.
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel Fick
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today
by Max Boot
Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness
by Brian Payton
Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft
by Simon Houpt
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks
by Ed Viesturs with David Roberts
The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
by Paul Collins
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Worst Hard Time
by Timothy Egan
Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks & Witty Retorts...
by Mardy Grothe
A Perfect Union : Dolly Madison and the creation of the American nation
by Catherine Allgor
This is Your Brain on Music : the science of a human obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
Dead Reckoning : great adventure writing from the golden age of exploration
by Helen Whybrow
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw : travels in search of Canada
by Will Ferguson
Stuffed : adventures of a restaurant family
by Patricia Volk
The Judgment of Paris
by Ross King
The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial
by Susan Eaton
Fowl Weather
by Bob Tarte
Walt Disney
by Neal Gabler
The House on Boulevard Street: New and Selected Poems
by David Kirby
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by John Vaillant
The Great War for Civilisation
by Robert Fisk
Barrow’s Boys
by Fergus Fleming
Sunday money : speed, lust, madness, death.
by Jeff MacGregor
The Long Road Home
by Marth Raddatz
The Eiger Obsession
by John Harlin III
Book Description
In The Bill from My Father, Bernard Cooper takes a familiar trope – a complex and unreliable parent – and gives it a unique spin as he looks back on his stormy relationship with his father. Edward Cooper was a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney, once seemingly invincible (at least to the author), but now sinking into dementia, whose constant philandering was hardly a secret from his sons (or presumably, his wife). Now, with his mother and all three of his older brothers dead, Bernard felt it was important to understand the complications of his bond with this most difficult man, which means trying to come to grips with his father’s strong disapproval of both his choice of career as a writer (the elder Cooper wanted Bernard to become a lawyer, as all three of his brothers did) and his homosexuality. As you might imagine, the father/son relationship is not improved when his father sends him a bill for nearly 2 million dollars – the cost of raising him. This moving account is liberally leavened with humor, and presented in a spirit of good humor, so that it never morphs into the oh-poor-me school of autobiography.
|
