Big Ray [electronic resource]
Kimball, Michael2012
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Big Ray's obesity and his mean temper define him, at least to his family. When Big Ray dies, his son Daniel puts his feelings aside, for a while. Years later, Daniel attempts to reckon with the enduring, outsized memory of his father. In this stunning novel a middle-aged man comes to terms with his father's death - and with his life. Told in five hundred brief entries, the complexity of this searing story moves back and forth between the past and the present, between an abusive childhood and an adult understanding. Shot through with humour and insight that will resonate with anyone who has a complicated parental relationship, Big Ray is a staggering family story - at once brutal and tender, unusual and unsettling.
Main title:
Big Ray [electronic resource] / Michael Kimball
Author:
Kimball, Michael, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Michael Kimball is the author of The Way the Family Got Away, How Much of Us There Was and Dear Everybody, and his novels have been translated into a dozen languages. His work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and in the Guardian, Vice, Bomb and New York Tyrant. He is also a documentary filmmaker. http://michael-kimball.com/index.html
ISBN:
9781408832165
Language:
English
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BRN:
2764285
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