Cures for Hunger
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1571313427 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Growing up in British Columbia, Deni Ellis Béchard believes his charismatic father is infallible. Boyish rebelliousness gives way to fantasies of a life of crime. Wild, unpredictable, even dangerous, André is worshipped by his son, who believes that his father can do no wrong. André Béchard was once a bank robberand so Deni’s imagination is set on fire. At once an extraordinary family story and a highly unconventional portrait of the artist as a young man, Cures for Hunger is a deeply affecting memoir by one of the most acclaimed young writers in the world today.. But when Deni’s mother leaves his father and decamps with her three children to Virginia, the boy learns of his father’s true identity. Only when he goes off to college, however, does Deni begin to unravel the story of his father’s life, eventually finding the Quebecois family that André left behind lon
Béchard is the rare writer who knows the secret to telling the true story. Béchard’s poetic gifts give voice to the outsiders of society, and make them glow with humanity and love.”Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen “Béchard has created a moving story of rootlessness, rebellion, lost love, criminal daring, regret, and restless searching. Written in exquisitely sharp prose, Béchard combs through his attempt to understand his father’s mysterious existence with inspiring precision. But it is also, perhaps e
Stephen Hunt said Kerouac con Guevara con Nick Flynn. Sort of an On-the-road meets Motorcycle Diaries meets Another Bullshit Night in Suck City but with the unique quiet Quebecois longing that permeated his first fiction novel (Vandal Love), Deni slowly unfolds his characters, his life, in a rough sketch kinda way, think the early trilogy of Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, & Youth), before Lev fell down the hole of drunken debauchery only to be saved by Sonya. I think had he waited some years to process (or . Pat Joubert said Great storyline, great writing. It's always unfair to compare, but this book has some Cormac McCarthy, a bit of Faulkner and some Russell Banks. The story of a young man looking for his dad who was a bank robber. Thoughtful and exciting.. well done vermont reader This memoir does a great job of telling about a son's view of his father and how it changed over time and how his father influenced him. It is beautifully written too. The book made me think about how parents need to love their children for who they are rather than for how they reflect on themselves. It made me think about how strongly children want to please their parents, and how they idealize them when they are young and how that can all change into
He lives in New York.. Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of the novels Into the Sun and Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book; Of Bonobos and Men, winner of the 2015 Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism; and Cures for Hunger. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the LA Times, S