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My Daddy Was a Pistol, and I'm a Son of a Gun
My Daddy Was a Pistol and I'm a Son of a Gun
Author: Lewis Grizzard
This is a very special memoir, an unabashed confession of first a boy's, then a man's love for his father. As Lewis says. "To love someone unconditionally-as I loved Daddy-is to remember nuances that made such an object of love unique and impossible to replace." He was a man of contradictions, of lusty appetites, of rare warmth. He was a charmer...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394582221
ISBN-10: 0394582225
Publication Date: 5/22/1989
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Publisher: Random House Audio
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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Lewis Grizzard always makes us laugh. But this time, when he tells us all about his father---a certified war hero and a shameless passer of bad checks...a charmer of men and women and a consummate con artist...a man of great courage and an alcoholic destined to drink himself to death---he's going to make us cry, too. And he's going to give us a halarious, moving account of that "tender, spooly territory: that country of the heart inhabited by fathers and sons.
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Sad story about Grizzard's growing up.