Nobody's Son

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Summary: A Biography like no other
Review: In all my years of reading, there has not been many times that a book has compelled me to write a review. This is one that has touched me in a way that no other biography has done. I thoroughly enjoyed Nobody's Son! It isn't like any other biography that I have read, because it reads just like a novel. As I read, it was as though Mr. Keeling was right in my living room telling me his life stories. I could see in my mind's eye everything that was happening. Mr. Keeling writes in a beautiful descriptive voice. These were real stories, about a real person, with real struggles. I found myself saddened to the point of tears as he describes his first years of his life and elated over his success. This man is a survivor in the true sense. I highly recommend this book. There is no doubt that you will enjoy Nobody's Son too.

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Summary: A tale of resilient youth
Review: War is the minor adversary in this solid reminiscence -- chronicling the English trait for sacrificing their children to keep up appearances in the class struggle. Frank Keeling serves up a searing stew of family dysfunction from within a pressure cooker clamped tightly with an oppressive lid. Inside, a young boy is tossed and scalded by a stew simmering deep with repression and dark family secrets. Keeling's personal writing style keeps up with classic non-fictitious and fictitious depictions of this theme in works such as Tobias Wolff's "This Boy's Life" to "Great Expectations" by Dickens.