The Bill from My Father: A Memoir

New York: Simon and Schuster; A Touchstone Book, 2006. viii, 240 pages; 22 cm. SIGNED by the author on a literary society bookplate pasted onto the front free endpaper. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Bernard Cooper's new memoir is searing, soulful, and filled with uncommon psychological nuance and laugh-out-loud humor. Like Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, Cooper's account of growing up and coming to terms with a bewildering father is a triumph of contemporary autobiography. / Bernard Cooper has won numerous awards and prizes, among them the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, an O. Henry Prize, and literature fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment of the Arts. He has published two memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Gentleman's Quarterly, and The Paris Review and in several volumes of The Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles and is the art critic for Los Angeles Magazine." - Publisher.. SIGNED. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.