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About Fathers
Fathers: A Literary Anthology is a collection of 49 personal essays and poems about fathers by eminent American, British and Canadian writers. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Bruce Chatwin, Winston Churchill, Seamus Heaney, Doris Lessing and Philip Roth. The anthology was published in Vancouver by Patremoir Press in 2011. In the introduction to the book, the editor, Andre Gerard, suggests that personal writing about fathers is a relatively new phenomenon, one for which he proposes the name of patremoir, and he traces the origins of this kind of writing back to Edmund Gosse's Father and Son. According to Gerard, Gosse helped make it possible to speak intimately and openly about the father.
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