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Not my fathers son is a memoir i wrote about my experiences during the summer of 2010, when i took part in the bbc tv series who do you think you are. He has an innocence as well as sweetness that can not be forged. Not my fathers son audiobook by alan cumming online. Instead, not my fathers son takes us on a doubletracked hunt into the gnarly thicket of his familys past, wherein the verity of both cummings parents is called into question and.
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He learned how to read a room and to avoid his fathers wrath. He integrates stories from his childhood with those detailing his experiences as a successful actor today in a memoir that is suspenseful, deeply moving and wickedly funny. It will linger inside of you long after you turn the final page harlan coben author of new york times bestsellers missing you and six years. Woven into his story is his path to unravelling the mysterious disappearance of the grandfather he never knew. In not my fathers son, alan cumming tells the story of two shocking discoveries involving his father and grandfather.
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Cumming has written a novel, tommys tale, and an autobiography, not my fathers son. Although my mum, mary, kept the surname cumming after her divorce from my father, she is known to me, my brother tom, and all our friends by her maiden name, mary darling. Not my fathers son by alan cumming epub download ebookscart. Instead, alan cumming uses his appearance on the genealogical reality show who do you think you are.
In his revealing book, not my fathers son, actor alan cumming chronicles the unraveling of some wrenching family mysteries after he. For alan cumming, life isnt always a cabaret the new. A very nicely paced mixture of then and now with the then linking nicely with the now. Oct 10, 2014 actor alan cumming s memoir, not my father s son, explores his childhood and upbringing, including a look at his physically and emotionally abusive father.
Cumming lived for years under the long shadow of his father or, at least, the man he thought was his father. Listening to alan cumming relate his own story made the telling of abuse, a difficult period of revelation and the triump of spirit. Multitalented star of stage and screen, alan cumming has appeared in more than a hundred television, movie and theatre productions. He had a secret he had to share, one that would shock his son to his very core and set in motion a journey that would change alans life forever. Actor alan cummings memoir, not my fathers son, explores his childhood and upbringing, including a look at his physically and emotionally abusive father. Alan cumming s moving memoir not my father s son is all that and more.
Alan cumming has written an outstanding and sometimes heartstopping account of the relationship he had with his father a bully and an adulterer who revelled in inflicting terrorising psychotic mind games on his son and subjecting him, on the slightest pretext, to physical beatings. Until one day they all flood back in horrible detail. Not my father s son isnt a typical celebrity tellall. When television producers approached alan cumming to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show, he hoped to solve the. This book, however, is not about his life as an actor or how he found his calling to act it is about his tortured relationship with his father who physically and emotionally abused him throughout his childhood. Recently, i caught the tale end of a bbc radio 4 serialisation of alan cummings book not my fathers son and was intrigued. Son is alan cummings lyrically written and heartfelt memoir of his life and his journey to understanding his difficult childhood with compassion, intelligence, love and honesty. I have actually suched as alan cummings since i saw him in spy youngsters years ago. If you want a bunch of hollywood inside stories, this is not the book for you.
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