Our Father

By Marilyn French

Book Overview

Presents the story of a father and his four daughters, born to different mothers and living very different lives until their father's stroke forces them into a reconciliation. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316293903
• ISBN13: 9780316293907
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

BAD FATHER

In keeping with the tradition of her other novels, Marilyn French proves excellent in OUR FATHER. She presents an earnest look into the effects of childhood abuse in later life. This book scans the lives of four very different half-sisters who are each the victim of sexual abuse and it shows how each of the women copes with her past in her own unique way. OUR FATHER gives us a peak into the world of the powerful and the powerless, and sends us a chilling reminder that evil does exist. The most positive part of this book is that the victims get a chance to confront the abuser. The results of that encounter give us hope. Rape, incest and abuse are never pretty subjects; yet Ms. French writes about them with frankness and great understanding.