{"product_id":"my-fathers-fortune-9781250002341","title":"My Father's Fortune","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Ackerley Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn \"makes the family memoir his own\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. As Peter Kemp wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London), \"Frayn has never written with more searching brilliance than in his quest for his past.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling \u003ci\u003eHeadlong\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and \u003ci\u003eSpies\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. Michael Frayn is also the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Father's Fortune: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy: A Play\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Landing on the Sun: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Trick of It: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He has also written fifteen plays, among them \u003ci\u003eNoises Off\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCopenhagen\u003c\/i\u003e, which won three Tony Awards in 1999. He lives just south of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50848982171922,"sku":"9781250002341","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd152f41-bcb2-4cd7-822d-e0f19fcf33db.jpg?v=1737385733","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-fathers-fortune-9781250002341","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}