Nobody's Son: Final Edition

By Frank D. Keeling

This is not just another memoir. Nobody's Son is a compelling story of survival. Keeling traces the life of young Jack Bunton whose chaotic childhood, traumatic adolescence and adult passions meld to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1425117104
• ISBN13: 9781425117108
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Well done, Frank

Here's an excerpt about Frank's book, from my book on marketing, Book Marketing DeMystified: Enjoy Discovering the Optimal Way to Sell Your Self-Published Book, Practical advice from the inventor of print-on-demand (POD) publishing... Victoria author Frank Keeling organized a reading/launch party with the owners of a local pub/restaurant and a bookstore to promote his autobiographical account of childhood sexual abuse [Nobody's Son]. Both establishments promoted this literary evening in their newsletters, flyers and ads, while Frank arranged publicity with local newspapers and radio, and invited family and friends. The owners of the Blethering Place pub were happy to have extra customers buying meals and drinks on an otherwise slow evening, while a staff member from Ivy's Bookstore was on hand to sell books. Frank read passages of his book with such conviction that even the pub regulars were intrigued and bought copies. Frank Keeling told me he wanted to read publicly from his book (PURPOSE), in part as a cathartic process and in part to experience the satisfaction of being like Frank McCourt at a literary festival reading Angela's Ashes. He found the right venue (PLACE), secured PUBLICITY and established PARTNERSHIPS with a pub and a bookseller. I've now heard both Franks perform and thought our Mr. Keeling did the superior job.

A tale of resilient youth

War is the minor adversary in this solid reminiscence -- chronicling the English trait for sacrificing their children to keep up appearances in the class struggle. Frank Keeling serves up a searing stew of family dysfunction from within a pressure cooker clamped tightly with an oppressive lid. Inside, a young boy is tossed and scalded by a stew simmering deep with repression and dark family secrets. Keeling's personal writing style keeps up with classic non-fictitious and fictitious depictions of this theme in works such as Tobias Wolff's "This Boy's Life" to "Great Expectations" by Dickens.

A Biography like no other

In all my years of reading, there has not been many times that a book has compelled me to write a review. This is one that has touched me in a way that no other biography has done. I thoroughly enjoyed Nobody's Son! It isn't like any other biography that I have read, because it reads just like a novel. As I read, it was as though Mr. Keeling was right in my living room telling me his life stories. I could see in my mind's eye everything that was happening. Mr. Keeling writes in a beautiful descriptive voice. These were real stories, about a real person, with real struggles. I found myself saddened to the point of tears as he describes his first years of his life and elated over his success. This man is a survivor in the true sense. I highly recommend this book. There is no doubt that you will enjoy Nobody's Son too.