The Bill From My Father

The Bill From My Father by Bernard Cooper


ISBN
9780330447393
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Dimensions
138 x 216 x 23mm

Edward Cooper was a hard man to know. Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictated the always-uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Now -- balding, octogenarian, clad in the polyester jumpsuit that has become the uniform of his retirement -- he makes an unlikely literary muse.

Bernard Cooper and his father have found themselves the last surviving members of the family that once included his mother, Lillian, and three older brothers. Edward Cooper made his name as a divorce attorney in LA. An expert at 'the dissolution of human relationships', he is slowly succumbing to dementia. As Bernard attempts to forge a coherent picture of his family history, he uncovers peculiar documents detailing Edward's lawsuits against other family members, including his newly widowed daughters-in-law, and recalls the itemised invoice his father once sent him for the total cost of his upbringing, for the sum of two million dollars.

By the time Bernard receives his inheritance (including a message his father sticky-taped to the underside of a safe-deposit box), and sees the surprising epitaph inscribed on his father's headstone, 'The Bill from My Father' has become a penetrating meditation on both monetary indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love.
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