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Description

1. 279 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

1. "Bill Gaston's relationship with his father was stormy. Sons clash with fathers, particularly with towering, authoritarian figures like Gaston Senior. Fairly or unfairly, sons look for reasons to rebel, particularly against boring suburban fathers who seem to prize conformity above all else. And fairly or unfairly, sons judge their fathers when they can't handle their booze. But even a father and son as doomed to clash as Gaston and his father could fish together. When they were shoulder-to-shoulder, joined in shared anticipation and common purpose, gazing at the waves of the Pacific Ocean, they were no longer betrayed by their differences. When Gaston's father dies, this is the memory of his father that he keeps alive. In the years that follow, however, he learns more about his father's realtionship with his father. It too was marked by heavy drinking, though it took a much darker turn. What Gaston comes to realize is that the man his younger self had been so eager to judge was in fact capable of near-heroic feats of self-mastery. And as a father of grown sons himself, he acutely feels the wounds he must have inflicted years before by withholding so much he now knows that fathers long for. Returning to the past, Gaston goes back to those times in the boat, and comes to understand his own story anew as he sees his father in a new light. Warm, often funny, and alive to all the ways in which the words for love so often come too late, Just Let Me Look at You captures a father's inexpressible tenderness for a child and the longing he feels when that child becomes a man."--

Subject

1. Fathers and sons
2. Authors, Canadian
3. Gaston, Bill, 1953-
4. 1900-1999
5. Families
6. Authors, Canadian (English) > 20th century > Biography
7. Fathers and sons > Canada > Biography
8. Canada
9. Gaston, Bill, 1953- > Family
10. Autobiographies
11. Fatherhood
12. Authors, Canadian > 20th century > Biography
13. Biography

Genre/Form

1. Autobiographies.
2. Biography.

Call number

1. JFD 18-3842

Author

1. Gaston, Bill, 1953- author.

Title

1. Just let me look at you : on fatherhood / Bill Gaston.

Publisher

1. Toronto, Ontario : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Other form:

1. Gaston, Bill, 1953-, author. Just let me look at you.: Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, 2018. (CaOONL)20179044273

ISBN

1. 073523406X paperback
2. 9780735234062 paperback

Research call number

1. JFD 18-3842