Just Once, No More (häftad, eng)

In this vulnerable, honest, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Charles Foran offers a brief and powerful meditation on fathers and sons, love and loss, even as his own father approaches the end of life.

“Luminous. . . . Wise and moving.” —Yann Martel

Dave Foran was a formidable man of few words, from a different era than his sensitive, literary son, CharlieAs a younger person, Dave had lived alone for months in the bush, overcome snow blindness, hauled a dead body across a frozen lake on a dogsled, dodged bullets in a bar, and gone toe-to-toe with a bear. Some aspects of his life were rollicking while others were more restrained: A decent father and a devoted husband, Dave was also emotionally distant, prone to laconic cynicism and a changeable mood.

As Charlie writes: “He struggled most days of his life with wounds he could not readily identify, let alone heal.”
     The year Charlie turned 55, his 83-year-old father began a slow, final decline, and Charlie surprised himself by wanting to write about their relationshipOn the surface, his motivation was to reassure his father that he was loved. But there was also a deeper desire at work. “Late into the middle of my own lifespan,” Charlie writes, “sadness took hold of my being . . . I wanted to say so frankly, never mind how uncomfortable it made me.”
     In spare, haunting prose, Just Once, No More pulls on these delicate threads— unravelling a fascinating personal story and revealing its poignant universality.

Format	Häftad
Omfång	200 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Vintage Canada
Utgivningsdatum	2025-05-13
ISBN	9781039001077