Father Verses Sons by Ari Gold Hardback Book 9781644284261

When the global pandemic forced his ninetysixyearold father into isolation filmmaker Ari Gold became concerned that loneliness would kill his fathers spirits As a prolific novelist who began writing in his twenties Herbert Golds incredibleamp160oeuvre included twentyfour novels five collections of stories and essays and eight nonfiction books So Ari mailed his father a poem asking for one in return Later Aris twin brother Ethan also got into the game Thus was launched a lifesaving literary correspondence and a testament to the bonds of familyThe resulting poems are playful honestamp160funny and moving Secrets are invoked alongside personaland often painfulamp8212history Ari andamp160Ethans mother Herbert Goldamp8217s second wife died in a helicopter crash alongside the famousamp160rock promoter and impresario Bill Graham in 1991 Her ghost roams through the poems and theamp160wonderful archival photos included in full color throughoutIn Father Verses Sons a lushly illustrated quotcorrespondence in poemsquot ranges across the lifeamp160family and death of a remarkable father The father and his sons write tenderly of their hungeramp160for connection about the woman that all three...