My Father and Myself

NYRB CLASSICS: An adult son and acclaimed author offers a heartfelt gay memoir about uncovering his late father’s secrets. “A cross between Dickens’s David Copperfield , Rousseau’s Confessions , and the new pornography.” — Donald Windham, novelist and memoirist   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