Dad

by William Wharton

  —Library Journal

  SCUMBLER

  “A marvelously vital novel about the power of the imagination to create and recreate life.”

  —Valerie Miner, Los Angeles Times

  “Scumbler is about the pleasure of creation and the pangs of ordinary existence. Its prose is as exuberant as its subject matter.”

  —Doris Grumbach, Chicago Tribune

  PRIDE

  “Two stories and several meanings of the word ‘pride’ interweave in Wharton’s poetic novel about families, love and coming to terms with reality.”

  —Publishers Weekly

  “[Pride] possesses a sweetness and felt emotion that leaves a warm, pleasant afterglow in our minds.”

  —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

  Copyright

  Copyright © 1981 by William Wharton.

  Previously published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

  This book is published in the United States of America and Canada.

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint from previously published material:

  Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., and ATV Music Ltd.: Excerpt from “The Prisoner’s Song” by Guy Massey, Copyright 1924. Renewed by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y. 10022. For the British Commonwealth, Great Britain and Colonies, and Ireland, Copyright 1924 Lawrence Wright Music Co., Ltd. Used by permission.

  TRO and Leo Feist, Inc.: Excerpt from “I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do),” words by Roy Turk, music by Fred E. Ahlert. Copyright © 1931 and renewed 1959 Cromwell Music, Inc., New York, N.Y., Fred Ahlert Music Corp., Los Angeles, Ca., and Pencil Mark Music, Inc., Scarsdale, N.Y. Rights outside the U.S. administered by Leo Feist, Inc. Used by permission.

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  First Newmarket Edition

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Wharton, William.

  Dad / William Wharton.

  p. cm.

  ISBN: 1-55704-256-X

  1. Fathers and sons—United States—Fiction. 2. Aging parents—United States—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3573.H32D3 1996

  813’.5—dc20

  95-25699

  CIP

  EPub Edition © November 2014 ISBN: 9780062278333

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