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352 Pages·2011·3.57 MB·English
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ALSO BY JOHN DARNTON Black and White and Dead All Over The Darwin Conspiracy Mind Catcher The Experiment Neanderthal THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK Published by Alfred A. Knopf Copyright © 2011 by Talespin, Inc. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. www.aaknopf.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Harold Ober Associates for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Sunday: New Guinea” by Karl Shapiro, copyright © 1943, 1970 by Karl Shapiro. First published in Good Housekeeping. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Darnton, John. Almost a family : a memoir / by John Darnton. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-30759524-9 1. Darnton, John. 2. Darnton, John—Family. 3. Authors, American—20th century— Biography. 4. Fathers and sons—United States—Biography. I. Title. PS3554.A727Z46 2010 813′.54—dc22 [B] 2010016835 Jacket photograph courtesy of the author Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson v3.1 For Nina and Kyra, Liza, and Jamie and Zachary and Ella Asher and Adara A man who has spent his life in newspaper work is apt to believe that in the long run the best thing to do is to tell the truth. —BYRON DARNTON And over the hill the guns bang like a door And planes repeat their mission in the heights. The jungle outmaneuvers creeping war And crawls within the circle of our sacred rites. I long for our disheveled Sundays home, Breakfast, the comics, news of latest crimes, Talk without reference, and palindromes, Sleep and the Philharmonic and the ponderous Times. I long for lounging in the afternoons Of clean intelligent warmth, my brother’s mind, Books and thin plates and flowers and shining spoons, And your love’s presence, snowy, beautiful, and kind. KARL SHAPIRO, “Sunday: New Guinea” Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Epilogue Acknowledgments A Note About the Author Illustrations

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best-selling author: a beautifully crafted memoir of his lifelong chase after his father’s shadow.John was eleven months old when his father, Barney Darnton—a war correspondent for The New York Times—was killed in World War II, but his absence l
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