# My Father and Myself

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- Book: [My Father and Myself](https://www.bookquiver.com/jr-ackerley/my-father-and-myself) ([My Father and Myself.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jr-ackerley/my-father-and-myself.md))
- Authors: [J.R. Ackerley](https://www.bookquiver.com/jr-ackerley), [Wystan Hugh Auden](https://www.bookquiver.com/wystan-hugh-auden)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-09-4032-212-7
- Pages: 280
- Published: 1999-09-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

NYRB CLASSICS: An adult son and acclaimed author offers a heartfelt gay memoir about uncovering his late father’s secrets. “A cross between Dickens’s David Copperfield, Rousseau’s...