Título: After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story
Autor: Michael Hainey
Sinopse: A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son’s quest to understand the mystery of his father’s death—a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us who we are. Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family’s back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael’s father, was found alone near his car on Chicago’s North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone, leaving behind a young widow, two sons, a fractured family—and questions surrounding the mysterious nature of his death that would obsess Michael throughout adolescence and long into adulthood. Finally, roughly his father’s age when he died, and a seasoned reporter himself, Michael set out to learn what happened that night. Died “after visiting friends,” the obituaries said. But the details beyond that were inconsistent. What friends? Where? At the heart of his quest is Michael’s all-too-silent, opaque mother, a woman of great courage and tenacity—and a steely determination not to look back. Prodding and cajoling his relatives, and working through a network of his father’s buddies who abide by an honor code of silence and secrecy, Michael sees beyond the long-held myths and ultimately reconciles the father he’d imagined with the one he comes to know—and in the journey discovers new truths about his mother. A stirring portrait of a family and its legacy of secrets, After Visiting Friends is the story of a son who goes in search of the truth and finds not only his father, but a rare window into a world of men and newspapers and fierce loyalties that no longer exists.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story”, de Michael Hainey, publicado pela editora Scribner Book Company, em 2013 e com 299 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Scribner Book Company
Páginas: 299
Ano: 2013
Edição:
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781451676563
ISBN13: 9781451676563
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Scribner Book Company oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas densas e personagens complexos, muitas vezes inseridos em contextos históricos ou sociais ricos. O catálogo revela um equilíbrio entre obras que exploram dramas humanos profundos, como histórias de sobrevivência e memórias pessoais, e outras que adotam um tom mais leve e humorístico, incluindo relatos autobiográficos e sátiras culturais. Há uma clara atenção à construção de atmosferas detalhadas, seja em cenários urbanos contemporâneos ou em ambientes históricos, com ritmo que varia do introspectivo ao dinâmico. O material de apresentação indica ainda uma diversidade temática que vai da ficção literária ao ensaio científico acessível, passando por graphic novels com humor e ação.
