Jack's Boy: An Alcoholic Childhood
This harrowing memoir traces the arc of one young child's love for his dad and family from innocence to the devastating reality of the father's profound alcoholism. In short, frank and unsentimental chapters, Dold captures the stark emotional ruin of a life gone off the tracks, innocent people held in nightly bondage, and a beautiful world gone haywire.

Beyond the immediacy of this physical and emotional turmoil, Jack's Boy paints
a vivid picture of America in the 1950s, where families were assumed to be happy and nobody talked about their problems. Jack's Boy is a disturbing portrait that will move readers with its revelation of broader truths about life lived in the shadow of alcoholism, leaving room for hope.
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Jack's Boy: An Alcoholic Childhood
This harrowing memoir traces the arc of one young child's love for his dad and family from innocence to the devastating reality of the father's profound alcoholism. In short, frank and unsentimental chapters, Dold captures the stark emotional ruin of a life gone off the tracks, innocent people held in nightly bondage, and a beautiful world gone haywire.

Beyond the immediacy of this physical and emotional turmoil, Jack's Boy paints
a vivid picture of America in the 1950s, where families were assumed to be happy and nobody talked about their problems. Jack's Boy is a disturbing portrait that will move readers with its revelation of broader truths about life lived in the shadow of alcoholism, leaving room for hope.
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Jack's Boy: An Alcoholic Childhood

Jack's Boy: An Alcoholic Childhood

by Gaylord Dold
Jack's Boy: An Alcoholic Childhood

Jack's Boy: An Alcoholic Childhood

by Gaylord Dold

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Overview

This harrowing memoir traces the arc of one young child's love for his dad and family from innocence to the devastating reality of the father's profound alcoholism. In short, frank and unsentimental chapters, Dold captures the stark emotional ruin of a life gone off the tracks, innocent people held in nightly bondage, and a beautiful world gone haywire.

Beyond the immediacy of this physical and emotional turmoil, Jack's Boy paints
a vivid picture of America in the 1950s, where families were assumed to be happy and nobody talked about their problems. Jack's Boy is a disturbing portrait that will move readers with its revelation of broader truths about life lived in the shadow of alcoholism, leaving room for hope.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940151590440
Publisher: Gaylord Dold
Publication date: 05/13/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 488 KB

About the Author

Gaylord Dold was born in Kansas and raised in southern California during the good old days. He was educated at the University of Kansas, the University of California, and the London School of Economics, where he took an advanced degree in international law. Before becoming a professional writer, he worked as a chauffeur, theater usher, legal services attorney, law professor and volunteer mentor. He is the co-founder and managing editor of Watermark Press which published works like Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien, which later became a film directed by Mike Figgis, starring Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue. Dold has published eighteen crime novels and five travel guides. Many of his crime novels have received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist; many have been praised by Marilyn Stasio and others in the New York Times Book Review and in newspapers like the Portland Oregonian, The Washington Post and Boston Herald. His novel Schedule Two was picked as the best crime novel of 1996 by the Portland Oregonian, while his legal thriller The Devil to Pay was picked as one the best ten crime novels of 1998. His novels have been published in Japan, England, and Brazil. Dold has read his work throughout the United States and has conducted numerous writing workshops. He published The Last Man in Berlin in 2004, a novel set in pre-Nazi Germany during the early 1930s.

After twenty-five years of non-stop work, Dold has, since 2006, taken time off to travel and write five books, including novels, a memoir, and a YA that takes place in Wyoming. At present he continues researching non-fiction books about fly fishing on the old Mountain Man rendezvous sites and along the Continental Divide, writing science fiction, and is busy on a new fiction suspense novel about dream research

These days, Dold is at home on the southern prairie. He is an adept fly fisherman, an ardent gardener and an amateur pianist and guitarist. He rides horses poorly and loves dogs. He continues to travel widely in the Caribbean, the south Pacific and the western Rockies.
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