Such a Life Martin Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780803236479

Such a Life\nby Lee Martin\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Lee Martin\nTitle: Such a Life\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Memoirs\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9780803236479\nISBN-10: 0803236476\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he asked the doctor, Can you get rid of it?' From such an inauspicious beginning, Martin began collecting impressions that, through the tincture of time and the magic of his narrative gift, have become the finely wrought pieces of Such a Life. \nWhether recounting the observations of a solemn child, understood only much later, or.