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When
Did You Last See Your Father? is Blake Morrison's moving and
candid memoir of his father in the weeks leading up to his death. When
Arthur Morrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer he had only a few
weeks left to live. Morrison traveled to Yorkshire to stay with his
mother in the village where he grew up. He visited his father at the
hospital where he had spent so much time with his own patients as a GP.
As his father's condition worsened Morrison contemplated their shared
experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship.
After his father's death Morrison questions the nature of the bond
between them, articulately expressing the contradictions, frustrations,
love and loss bound into the complicated relationships which most of us
have with our parents as we grow up..
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