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  title info:
    title: Just let me look at you
    sub title: on fatherhood
  name:
    name part: Gaston, Bill
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 279 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Bill Gaston's relationship with his father was stormy. Sons clash with fathers, particularly with towering, authoritarian figures like Gaston Senior. Fairly or unfairly, sons look for reasons to rebel, particularly against boring suburban fathers who seem to prize conformity above all else. And fairly or unfairly, sons judge their fathers when they can't handle their booze. But even a father and son as doomed to clash as Gaston and his father could fish together. When they were shoulder-to-shoulder, joined in shared anticipation and common purpose, gazing at the waves of the Pacific Ocean, they were no longer betrayed by their differences. When Gaston's father dies, this is the memory of his father that he keeps alive. In the years that follow, however, he learns more about his father's realtionship with his father. It too was marked by heavy drinking, though it took a much darker turn. What Gaston comes to realize is that the man his younger self had been so eager to judge was in fact capable of near-heroic feats of self-mastery. And as a father of grown sons himself, he acutely feels the wounds he must have inflicted years before by withholding so much he now knows that fathers long for. Returning to the past, Gaston goes back to those times in the boat, and comes to understand his own story anew as he sees his father in a new light. Warm, often funny, and alive to all the ways in which the words for love so often come too late, Just Let Me Look at You captures a father's inexpressible tenderness for a child and the longing he feels when that child becomes a man.
  note: Bill Gaston.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gaston, Bill
      name part: 1953-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gaston, Bill
      name part: 1953-
    topic: Family
  subject:
    topic: Authors, Canadian
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Fathers and sons
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Fatherhood
  classification: PR9199.3.G373 J87 2018
  classification: 306.874/2
  identifier: 9780735234062
  identifier: 073523406X
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 170821
    record change date: 20190422110402.0
    record identifier: in00004056360
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng