The Bill from My Father: A Memoir (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Bill from My Father: A Memoir Sunday, August 9 2009.

• Edward Cooper is a hard man to know.Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictate the always uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Balding, octogenarian, and partial to a polyester jumpsuit, Edward Cooper makes an unlikely literary muse. But to his son he looms larger than life, an overwhelming and baffling presence. Edward's ambivalent regard for his son is the springboard from which this deeply intelligent memoir takes flight. By the time the author receives his inheritance (which includes a message his father taped to the underside of a safe deposit box), and sees the surprising epitaph inscribed on his father's headstone, The Bill from My Father has become a penetrating meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Bill from My Father: A Memoir Sunday, August 9 2009.

• Added a contributor: Bernard Cooper: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Bill from My Father: A Memoir Friday, July 17 2009.

• "I scratch," said my father.