Fatherhood
  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872663
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $9.99

Fatherhood

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Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between


Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads.

How to be a good father?

Children’s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard’s compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the boring struggles of domesticity, this is one father’s personal experience, and somehow, every father’s too.

Selected from the book A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

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  • Published: 29 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784872663
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $9.99
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Death
Julian Barnes
Depression
William Styron
Calm
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Babies
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Sisters
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Eating
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Desire
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Liberty
Virginia Woolf
Home
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Race
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Love
Jeanette Winterson
Swimming
Roger Deakin
Freedom
Margaret Atwood
Marriage
Jane Austen
Friendship
Rose Tremain
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis
War
Sebastian Faulks
Dreams
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Rave
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Money
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Injustice
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About the author

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.

portrait photo of Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Praise for Fatherhood

A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape

Independent

Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book.

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