Beckett's Children: A Literary Memoir

Where literary criticism meets memoir, Beckett’s Children explores how absence, lineage, and loss echo across art and life.

Beckett’s Children is a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father-son dialogue, and literary investigation that probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe in search of traces of their long-rumored status as father and daughter. Although Howe has denied the rumor, the possibility that it might be true leads Coffey to a highly original app...