My father & myself

About this book

When his father died J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died he left a surprise of his own this coolly considered unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. But Ackerleys pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self making My Father and Myself a pioneering record at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged of life as a gay man. This witty sorrowful and beautiful book is a classic of twentieth-century memoir.