FIRST EDITION 1989. Daddy We Hardly Knew You By Germaine Greer

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The most personal book from the renowned author of the landmark feminist treatise “The Female Eunuch”. When her father died in 1983, Germaine Greer realized how little she knew about him. What had happened during World War II to make this charming but distant man draw a “curtain of silence” around himself? Why had he never spoken of his family? Why had he never shown her the love she craved? In this deeply moving book, Greer tells of the impassioned search she made for the truth about her father—a search that led her to a new understanding of herself as well. Her quest lasted three years and took her from England to Australia to Tasmania, India, and Malta; through scores of genealogical, civil, and military archives; and into the memories of the men and women who may—or may not—have known Reg Greer

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Pre-owned. Yet the heart of Greer’s narrative is her own emotional journey, as the startling facts behind the façade her father had constructed force her painfully to examine her own notions of truth and loyalty, family and obligation. Reviews: “A big, bold book . . . Ferocious psychic need and volcanic energy drive this combined memoir, detective story and travelogue from first to last.”—The New Yorker; “Riveting.”—Time . The book is in GC but with light shelf wear. Grey hardback with black lettering to the spine, scratch on the back cover. Original dust jacket has two small nicks and crease on the edges. Nice clean pages overall but with an ink mark. Tainting and yellowing to the outer edges, two small nicks and tainted on the edges of the pages.312pp.Dust jacket is not price clipped. A collectable first edition. Hardcover Published by Hamish Hamilton 1989

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Weight 0.613 kg