{"product_id":"the-bill-from-my-father-a-memoir-9780743249638","title":"The Bill from My Father: A Memoir","description":"Edward Cooper is a hard man to know.Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictate the always uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Balding, octogenarian, and partial to a polyester jumpsuit, Edward Cooper makes an unlikely literary muse. But to his son he looms larger than life, an overwhelming and baffling presence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Edward's ambivalent regard for his son is the springboard from which this deeply intelligent memoir takes flight. By the time the author receives his inheritance (which includes a message his father taped to the underside of a safe deposit box), and sees the surprising epitaph inscribed on his father's headstone, \u003ci\u003eThe Bill from My Father\u003c\/i\u003e has become a penetrating meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe has published two memoirs, \u003ci\u003eMaps to Anywhere\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTruth Serum, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eA Year of Rhymes, \u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eGuess Again.\u003c\/i\u003e His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine, Gentleman's Quarterly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and in several volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Los Angeles and is the art critic for \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327743824146,"sku":"9780743249638","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d50352f-d6e7-433f-9b21-701de766268c.jpg?v=1727719784","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bill-from-my-father-a-memoir-9780743249638","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}