The Phantom Father: A Memoir

By Barry Gifford

Book Overview

Barry Gifford's consummate skills ring true once again in this riveting memoir. Though Gifford knew little of his father, who divorced his mother when he was eight and died only four years later,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151002509
• ISBN13: 9780151002504
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Perhaps his best book

Gifford's fiction is often an unholy pastiche of styles and devices, and this technique is perfectly suited for his memoir PHANTOM FATHER... I highly recommend it. Deserves a space on a short bookshelf that includes Angela's Ashes and The Liars' Club.