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My Father's Fortune

Michael Frayn

A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyAward Category: Ackerley Prize: Autobiography and Memoir -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyDisability & DifferenceFamily, Childhood & AdoptionMemoir & Personal History

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Ackerley Prize: Autobiography and Memoir2011WinnerOfficial source
Costa Book Awards: Biography2010FinalistSecondary source
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    • Tom Frayn78%

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