My Father's Island

"Adam Dudding examines his father's public achievements, and also writes frankly and movingly about what it was like to grow up the son of a famously painstaking worker who struggled to provide for his family of six children, and who increasingly isolated himself from the literary world that wanted to embrace him, and behaved in his marriage in ways that are distressingly typical of a generation of men who felt sidelined by social change"--Publisher information.