Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
The Organist
Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2019
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Composers & Musicians
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889775831
- Publish Date
- Jan 2019
- List Price
- $17.99
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Description
Harry Abley was a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed, unpredictable, emotionally unstable. He was also a dream of a father: gentle, courageous, artistically gifted. Mark Abley, his only child, grew up in the shadow of music and mental illness. How he came to terms with this divided legacy, and how he learned to be a man in the absence of a traditional masculine role model, are central to this beautifully written memoir. / This extraordinary story will speak to all those who love music, who struggle with depression, or who wrestle with the difficult bonds of love between a parent and a child.
About the author
Mark Abley was born in Leamington Spa, England, in 1955. From age six to twenty he lived in Lethbridge and Saskatoon. After winning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and received his Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature. He and his wife live in Montreal.
For the past seven years, Mark Abley has been a contributing editor to Macleans's and a regular writer for Saturday Night, CBC Radio's "Ideas" and The Times Literary Supplement. He has also written for the Globe and Mail, Canadian Literature, The Listener, and the New Statesman.
Other titles by Mark Abley
Watch Your Tongue
What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean
The Look Book
Fall 2018 Sampler
The Tongues of Earth
Conversations with a Dead Man
The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
Woman Clothed in Words
Beyond Forget
The Prodigal Tongue
Dispatches from the Future of English
When Earth Leaps Up
The Silver Palace Restaurant
Spoken Here
Travels among Threatened Languages
