{"product_id":"my-fathers-fortune-a-life-9781250002341","title":"My Father's Fortune: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Ackerley Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn \"makes the family memoir his own\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos 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. As Peter Kemp wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London), \"Frayn has never written with more searching brilliance than in his quest for his past.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250002341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.46w x 0.76d","brand":"Michael Frayn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648484339868,"sku":"9781250002341","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b2516b95-2a11-4fd6-8409-729ab308f997.jpg?v=1603870169","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-fathers-fortune-a-life-9781250002341","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}