Sitting by his father's deathbed, William Bloom tries to understand the man quickly slipping away, who is more interested in evading his son's questions than answering them. So William reconstructs his father's life through a series of stories, and in doing so finds a way to say goodbye.
year: 1998, 2003, 1999, 2001, 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: father and child, fiction, parents, death, father-child relationship, death, audiobooks, young men, family relationships, fathers and sons, terminally ill, storytelling, large type books, alabama, fiction
Editions
Wallace, Daniel
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (1998)
William Bloom, desperate to get to know his dying father before it's too late, recreates his parent's life in a series of legends and myths based on the few facts he knows.
Schools: 6
Wallace, Daniel
Penguin Books (2003)
William Bloom, desperate to get to know his dying father before it's too late, recreates his parent's life in a series of legends and myths based on the few facts he knows.
Schools: 1
Wallace, Daniel
Recorded Books (1999)
Sitting by his father's deathbed, William Bloom tries to understand the man quickly slipping away, who is more interested in evading his son's questions than answering them. So William reconstructs his father's life through a series of stories, and in doing so finds a way to say goodbye.
Schools: 0
Wallace, Daniel
Thorndike Press (2001)
Schools: 1
Wallace, Daniel
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2012)
William Bloom, desperate to get to know his dying father before it's too late, recreates his parent's life in a series of legends and myths based on the few facts he knows.
Schools: 3