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My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things by Joseph Skibell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Often comic, sometimes tender, profoundly truthful, the pleasure in these nonfiction pieces by award-winning novelist Joseph Skibell is discovering along with the author that catastrophes, fantasies, and delusions are what give sweetness and shape to our lives. “As a writer,” Skibell has said, “I feel about life the way the people of the Plains felt about the buffalo: I want to use every part of it.” In My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things, his first nonfiction work, he mines the events of his own life to create a captivating collection of personal essays, a suite of intimate stories that blurs the line between funny and poignant, and between the imaginary and the real. Often improbable, these stories are 100 percent true. Skibell misremembers the guitar his father promised him; together, he and a telemarketer dream of a better world; a major work of Holocaust art turns out to have been painted by his cousin. Woven together, the stories paint a complex portrait of a man and his family: a businessman father and an artistic son and the difficult love between them; complicated uncles, cousins, and sisters; a haunted house; and—of course—an imaginary guitar. Skibell's novels h

Who reads My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things?

Author

Joseph Skibell

Publisher

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565129306

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Collections, Family & Relationships

Rating

3.77 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14