LIFE WITH
FATHER By Clarence Day Ebury Press (Random House) - June 2002 ISBN 0091885655 PB Memoir / Historical Humor 1870s onwards - New York and environs Reviewed by: Rachel A Hyde, MyShelf.com Buy a US || UK Copy Out of print for too long, here is a brand new paperback edition of the humorous classic that, when it was first serialized back in the 1930s, rescued the flagging New Yorker Magazine. It tells of Clarence Day's early years with his father, the irascible "Clare" Day, Sr., a Wall Street broker. In Day's understated, matter-of-fact style, he tells how his father tangled with such challenges as: holiday accommodations, the newly-invented telephone, illnesses, his sons' attempts to play musical instruments and hiring a new cook. The elder Clarence Day was not an easy man to
live with. Here was a man who wanted to buy a cemetery corner plot to
be buried in "so I can get out," who lay in bed and groaned
all night when somebody else was ill (thus alarming the neighbors) and
who personally turned iceman when the real thing failed to deliver. He
demanded his life be just so, and woe betide the family member, servant
or tradesperson who disarranged his perfectly ordered existence. |
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