My Three Fathers: and the Elegant Deceptions of My Mother, Susan Mary Alsop

Author:   Bill Patten
Publisher:   PublicAffairs,U.S.
ISBN:  

9781586485559


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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My Three Fathers: and the Elegant Deceptions of My Mother, Susan Mary Alsop


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Author:   Bill Patten
Publisher:   PublicAffairs,U.S.
Imprint:   PublicAffairs,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.689kg
ISBN:  

9781586485559


ISBN 10:   1586485555
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Washington Times, July, 27, 2008 The details of Bill Patten's story are unique and fascinating but the process he describes of coming to terms with his family, while infinitely less complicated for most people, is a near universal one.


Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2008 In his arresting memoir, My Three Fathers, Mr. Patten describes the comedy of manners that results when this flower of a patrician order in which reticence ranks among the virtues is thrust into the atmosphere of modern confessional culture. New York Review of Books, June 17, 2008 Patten's memoir itself often seems like a satire on the international drinking aristocracy that flourished far back in the last century when life was more fun, as it always seems to have been in the good old days... Washington Times, July, 27, 2008 The details of Bill Patten's story are unique and fascinating but the process he describes of coming to terms with his family, while infinitely less complicated for most people, is a near universal one.


Washington Times, July, 27, 2008<br> The details of Bill Patten's story are unique and fascinating but the process he describes of coming to terms with his family, while infinitely less complicated for most people, is a near universal one.


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Bill Patten is a businessman with 30 years experience in real estate development. From 1978 to 1996 he published weekly newspapers in mid-coast Maine. He has three children, two step-children and three grandchildren. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with his wife and step-daughter.

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