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Ben Bradlee's all-American football player father lost his well-paying job in the Depression and never recovered his income but never lost his balance and energy. Living on a borrowed estate, he undertook to clear the property, and his young son bonded with his father as they worked alongside one another in the woods. When the thirteen-year-old contracted polio, his father nursed him back to health until they could go to work again.
Ben Bradlee tells the story of how this lifelong love of working outdoors enabled him to forge an intimate connection with his own son, who was born with a heart defect and is learning disabled. And Quinn Bradlee writes about how his father gave him courage and confidence, about what it is like not just to be the son of the Ben Bradlee, but his father's best pal. He tells wistfully how their roles have reversed and how he has become his father's protector.
Sally Quinn, wife and mother, offers her observation on fathers and sons in this joyous recognition of a very particular way of loving.
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Michael Forrest
reviewed A Life's Work: Fathers and Sons on March 10, 2012
A Life's Work: Fathers and Sons
This was a "non-fiction" book. One that was given to me by my mother to read. I didn't know these people or had ever heard of them before this so that was interesting i guess. This was really different to read, it seemed to me a lot of repeating, i got the impression that it was written over a course of a lifetime so that may have been the feeling of repetition for me regarding what was being said through out the book. Some of what was said was very real and i could relate to the feelings of their story. Life is a simple but complex thing, this book tells you of a relationship between a father and son, and bits of mother in there too. It stays on the surface which makes this an easy and quick read. I can't say that it did anything for me other than remind me that nature is wonderful and free to all who can appreciate it and that everyone learns and interrupts differently. We as humans (me especially, need to appreciate , not dictate anothers interpretions) should be open to all the different thoughts and expressions of each individual....accept that we don't think alike.
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