The Duke of Deception : Memories of My Father (Paperback)

from mahallett

mostly a story of males gone bad. how did g.wolff end up with a Fullbright scholarship? Mostly he was high and a terrible student. I found the story quite boring.book of the month club selection. people magazine's ten best of the year

from x_hoxha

As you start the book, be clear as to who "Kay" is, because it's kind of confusing, and the author will return to the opening scene toward the end.

from TimBazzett

This book grabbed me from page one and kept me. Having grown up with a very careful and frugal father who lived through the Depression and taught my siblings and me the necessity and advantages of saving, working and earning our keep, it was hard for me to imagine a father like Geoffrey Wolff had...

from SeriousGrace

June is the month for celebrating fathers. I don't think celebrating is what Wolff had in mind when he wrote the Duke of Deception. Instead I think the writing was cathartic for him and a way to exorcize demons that have haunted him since childhood. If it possible to have the perfect balance of a...

from sleahey

This is the kind of memoir that makes the reader squirm for its raw account of dysfunction. It embodies the conflict between truth, wishful thinking, and memories, while portraying a certain lifestyle and era that baby boomers and their parents may remember vividly.