{"product_id":"9781429918732","title":"My Father's Fortune: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time, Michael Frayn, the \"master of what is seriously funny,\"* turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story, to re-create the world that made him who he is\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary life lived by erring humans, which is always more extraordinary than people think. In \u003ci\u003eMy Father's Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Anthony Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127322853616,"sku":"9781429918732","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429918732_p0.jpg?v=1769901801","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429918732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}