After John Vernon's brother, Paul, died and John had to settle Paul's affairs, John had to face the fact that his brother had lived a reclusive life of squalor, despite a promising childhood. This heartwarming memoir explores the themes of brotherly love, self-discovery, and coming to terms with the fact that the people we love are often those we know least about.
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After John Vernon's brother, Paul, died and John had to settle Paul's affairs, John had to face the fact that his brother had lived a reclusive life of squalor, despite a promising childhood. This heartwarming memoir explores the themes of brotherly love, self-discovery, and coming to terms with the fact that the people we love are often those we know least about.
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Boston. 1999. September 1999. Houghton Mifflin. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0395944775. 272 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. keywords: Literature America Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER-‘Every family has its odd character, the one member who never seems right with the world. In his pairing of family history with the history of civilization, John Vernon discovers the extraordinary sources of ordinary things in the life of his reclusive brother, Paul. When Paul died and John was charged with settling his affairs, he came face to face with a life he had never suspected. His brother's house in southern New Hampshire was in a state of squalid disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, unheated and decrepit, pitifully unlivable. An assembly worker and an amateur inventor, Paul had managed to keep his sad and strange world hidden from his family and acquaintances. Why does a childhood full of promise turn wrong? Why do we clutter our lives with things? How do we make and understand our world? Vernon seeks answers in the most unexpected places. Buying a hammer at Wal-Mart inspires a short history of tools, Paul's wake occasions an investigation of embalming, and cleaning out his house gives rise to a history of central heating and of domesticating environments-all in an attempt to ‘comprehend a life that left behind not splendid monuments but ordinary wreckage. ' The result is a book of reasons: reasons for his brother's way of life, reasons for his own response to Paul's death. In the process, he discovers how reasons enable all of us not only to better understand the world and its mysteries but also to accept what can never be explained. inventory #26998.
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