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by Clark Blaise  (Author)
Da Capo Press, apr. 20th 1993 - 204 pages

Biography

Canadian author Clark Blaise is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and was the director of the International Writing Program. He was one of the founders of the Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group. In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was the founder of the post-graduate program in creative writing at Concordia University. He is married to internationally acclaimed Indian American author Bharati Mukherjee.

Description

I Had a Father is a prize-winning novelist's journey in search of an elusive parent.
Who is Lee R. Blaise? Furniture salesman of Montreal, Florida, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Springfield, Missouri, Manchester, New Hampshire, Hartford; drinker; Rotarian glad-hander; boxer and singer and sociopath; rampant lover; and perhaps genius.
Even now, Blaise writes, "I don't know if my father was sane or disturbed, a victim or a killer. I don't even know if I am his only child." He brings to his journey a novelist's eye, a detective's methodology, and an evocation of place unparalleled in modern letters.