![]() ![]() Told with scorching honesty and penetrating insight, it is a story for anyone who has ever longed for unconditional love from a parent. With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son. This father was distant, aloof, uninterested. The kind of father he wanted didn't exist for him. Betrayal after shocking betrayal ensued, and Augusten's childhood was over. Something dark and secretive that could not be named. As Augusten grew older, something sinister within his father began to unfurl. And sometimes.I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?" When Augusten Burroughs was small, his father was a shadowy presence in his life: a form on the stairs, a cough from the basement, a silent figure smoking a cigarette in the dark. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. ![]() It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. He buried it and told me I must never tell. About the book: Nominated for the 2009 Audiobook of the Year "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. ![]()
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