Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
by Greer, Dr. Germaine
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0449905616
- ISBN 13
- 9780449905616
- Seller
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About This Item
Fawcett Columbine, New York, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 312 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are tanned throughout. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. Greer's father, an Australian intelligence officer, left for WW II when she was only four. His cavalier pose concealed a family secret revealed in the closing section of this poignant memoir by the author of The Female Eunuch . Reg Greer came back from the war an anxiety-ridden, emotionally distant wreck. His daughter's later need to reconnect with him and her genealogical roots involved coming to terms with her craving for the love he never gave her. Though the narrative suffers from purple-hued padding, self-dramatization and a glaring dearth of factual evidence about her father's adult life, it's worth sticking with for the surprising finale, when Greer discovers his true identity and, in so doing, faces her own feelings of loss, love, regret and anger. The deeply affecting climax is a remarkable feat of family reconstruction. Along the way Greer files discerning observations of Australia's people and ecology, of war, and of Tasmania, India and Malta, where she traveled in search of "Daddy." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; ISBN: 0449905616. ISBN/EAN: 9780449905616. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9020. . 9780449905616
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9020
- Title
- Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
- Author
- Greer, Dr. Germaine
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0449905616
- ISBN 13
- 9780449905616
- Publisher
- Fawcett Columbine
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Greer, Reg (Eric Reginald), 1904-, Greer, Germaine, 1939---Family, Disabled veterans--Australia--Biography, Feminists--Biography Biography & Autobiography; Australia; ISBN: 0449905616 EAN: 9780449905616 Greer, Dr. Germaine Daddy, We Hardly K
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