- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: TouchWood Editions (Jan 15 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1894898745
- ISBN-13: 978-1894898744
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #414,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A well-written meditation on not having children." —The Malahat Review
(20080901)"The essays explore a terriotory worth knowing, a region that relatively few of us frequent." —Monday Magazine
Book Description
In a sequel to the celebrated collection of stories Nobody's Mother comes an honest and poignant collection of essays from men who have forgone fatherhood.
Statistics Canada data show that seven per cent of women and eight per cent of men intend to remain childless. Nobody's Father gives readers fresh, honest insights into that male eight per cent. Ranging in age from young manhood to late middle age, some gay and some straight, and making their homes across North America, the contributors explore the issues of what it means to live a life without children. While some writers admit they are haunted by feelings of failure to live up to their own fathers' expectations and to carry on the family name, others admit to knowing from an early age that parenthood was not for them and are content with the alternative lives they lead.
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Excellent collection of essays,
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This review is from: Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids (Paperback)
This is an excellent collection of essays about what it's like to be a man without children. As always with such collections, some pieces are better written than others or tell more moving stories than others. But even the weakest are worth reading and the strongest are quite compelling.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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From one of the writers,
By Allan R. Wilson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids (Paperback)
Of course I am biased, I wrote one of the 23 essays, One Day I Will Lie Down Beside You. I naturally had to read the other 22 essays, and they are all good, and some are excellent. 5 of the 23 are from gay men, but others are from men who are happy not having kids, from men who have regrets, and from a few who couldn't have kids. This would be a good anthology for men about to get married, it will help them sort out the issues of whether or not they should or would have kids. Also for gay men, with gay marriage in place, and even some with chances to adopt, you are no longer left out of the loop. As a teacher who has taught many screwed up kids who came from heterosexual parents, no one can convince me that a well balanced gay couple couldn't do a better job.My essay was different from the others, and I want to thank the editors for allowing me to fully express myself over the course of 2000 words. I am the one that is different, a father who is no longer a father, but is still in some ways a father. My only child, Josh, died from cancer at 16. His courage lives on and you will get glimpses of that from my essay (it was also reprinted in the Toronto Star and now another magazine in Canada is also going to reprint it). It will be hard to read it, but on the other hand, some readers have been incredibly positive in their compliments to me. It's a very interesting, professional anthology. |
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