Father of the Man: A Novel

By Robert Mooney

Book Overview

A stunning literary debut: a powerful love story informed by ghostly demarcations between World War II and the Vietnam War. It's just after dawn, June 6, 1982: "Dutch" Potter, an upstate New York bus... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375422048
• ISBN13: 9780375422041
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

The Mark of a John Gardner Protege

Robert Mooney studied with John Gardner at SUNY/Binghamton. I had the very good fortune to know a circle of writers/artists who studied with him when he taught at SIU/Carbondale. This book, like their works, has qualities I believe are the mark of the student/protege Gardner especially fostered--great crafting of sentences, a mix of very beautiful and the raw, very real people, an allegiance to his ideal of moral fiction but never in any way righteous, just true. As the extremes in response among the reviews show, it's not a work for the Saturday afternoon speed reader, but then I wouldn't expect that from someone who studied with Gardner, who in addition to the better known of his writings, was so astute in medieval and renaissance works he is renowned for having written Cliff notes for Chaucer!

Awesome Book

I have never read this book, but my friends dad wrote it, so it must be a gooden. I highly advies to you that you go out and buy this book.?! Do it now, then once you do, email me and tell me if it was good, i'm 99.9% sure that that the book is a great one, or, how them youngins say today, the book is "off of the chain". Go get it now.

Father of the Man

Father of the Man has some of the most engaging characters I've ever read. Mooney has a gift for illustrating the complexities of real, every day life and making them seem subtley mythic. This is a story about fathers & sons and about families -- the ones we are born to and the ones we make. A wonderful first novel worthy of multiple readings.

War Comes Home

This is not only a novel which grips the reader all the way, but the writing "glows," whether the subject is the meaning of an individual life or the texture of a bus seat or the fear at the hearts of those who may die--and have never really lived. If you know someone who's unafraid to grapple with human frailty, you have his or her Christmas gift right here.

Excellent story, great characters, terrific writing style!

Mooney scuplts a detailed, whirling, exciting story in "FATHER OF THE MAN". The research is exhaustive, the writing style fluid and strong, the story full of suspense. A great read.