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Article: Sins of he Father INTERVIEW INTERVIEW John Burnside's revealing memoir A Lie About My Father was named Scottish Book Of The Year last week. But, as Alan Taylor discovers, it was fuelled by decades of anger
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- December 3, 2006
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WHENEVER a child is born so too is a father; the one follows the
other as surely as spring does winter. It is, by common consent, a
good thing to have a father around. Children with fathers in their
lives, for example, tend to do better at school and grow up to be
caring, responsible, contented adults. On the other hand, children
without fathers are more likely to be the recipients of Asbos or, if
male, turn into rapists. They are even more likely to become addicted
to cigarettes.
Of course, as we all do, Tommy Burnside had a father, he just
didn't know who he was.
In the raw and unsentimental memoir, A Lie About My Father which
last week won the Saltire Society's Book Of The Year award ...