Kid Gloves : A Voyage Round My Father

Resumen del libro

New Statesman, Telegraph, Time Literary Supplement and Guardian Books of the Year 2015. When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship.

In the aftermath of an unlooked - for intimacy, Mars-Jones has written a book devoted to particular emotions and events. Kid Gloves is a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself - and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years before, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation, taking the homophobic bull by the horns.

The supporting cast includes Ian Fleming, the Moors Murderers, Jacqueline Bisset and Gilbert O'Sullivan, the singer-songwriter whose trademark look kept long shorts from their rightful place on the fashion pages for so many years.

Biografía del autor

Adam Mars-Jones nació en Londres en 1954. Es escritor y crítico literario. Su primer libro de cuentos, Lantern Lecture, ganó el premio Somerset Maugham en 1982. Poco después, en 1983, apareció en la lista de mejores escritores jóvenes británicos de Granta, en la que volvería a aparecer en 1993. Sí, dos veces. Es autor de las novelas The Waters of Thirst, Pilcrow y Cedilla; del ensayo Noriko Smiling y del libro de memorias Kid Gloves. Escribe reseñas de libros para London Review of Books y reseñas de películas para The Times Literary Supplement. Box Hill es su primer libro traducido al español, merecedor del Premio Fitzcarraldo de Novela 2019.