When his father died J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led asecret life. And after Ackerley himself died he left a surprise of his ownthis cool... » 

When his father died J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led asecret life. And after Ackerley himself died he left a surprise of his ownthis coolly considered unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out thewhole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. But Ackerleyspursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self making My Father andMyself a pioneering record at once sexually explicit and emotionally chargedof life as a gay man. This witty sorrowful and beautiful book is a classic oftwentiethcentury memoir. «