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Ruby Wilson, Barry Gifford's father, ran an all night liquor store/drugstore in Chicago, next door to the Club Alabama, where Barry used to watch showgirls rehearse on Saturday afternoons. Some mornings he ate breakfast at the small lunch counter in the store, dunking doughnuts with the organ-grinders' monkey. Other times he rode with his father to small towns in Illinois, where Ruby would meet someone while Barry waited for him in a diner. Everybody who was anybody in Chicago in the 30s, 40s, and 50s knew Barry Winston. Ruby Winston separated from Barry's mother when Barry was eight, married agaid (as did his mother), and died when Barry was twelve, leaving behind an elusive but powerful imprint, a constant, translucent presence. The Phantom Father explores the many sides of his unique bounty that remain in Barry Gifford's life-the allure and excitement of his father's world, the mystery he left in Barry's life, and the yearning to understand what he left behind. When Barry was a teenager, a friend of his asked, "Your father was a killer, wasn't he?" There is no easy answer to that question. Ruby Winston was a good man to know, and sometimes a dangerous man to know, but he was always a fascinating man to know.
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- Title Phantom Father: A Memoir
- Author Barry Gifford
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, New York
- Date 1997-05-12
- ISBN 9780151002504 / 0151002509
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.53 x 5.78 x 1.04 in (21.67 x 14.68 x 2.64 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century - Family, Gifford, Barry - Homes and haunts - Illinois
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97040674
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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New York. 1997. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151002509. 258 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. keywords: Autobiography Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Rudy Winston, the father of novelist and poet Gifford (WILD AT HEART), was a Chicago liquor-store owner with a criminal record. He's remembered by his son in this collection of autobiographical fragmentsor, to be more accurate, his absence is remembered. More often than not, Rudy, who divorced Gifford's mother when his son was eight, fails to appear. A typical anecdote describes the time he didn't show up to see Gifford win a bowling trophy. Other anecdotes include memories of baseball; summer camp (the embarrassment of bed-wetting); school (Gifford being publicly accused of smoking by an irate janitor); the author's grandfather; time spent fishing in Florida with a favorite uncle; a Chicago amusement park; death (a neighborhood butcher hangs himself; a Bears football…
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