{"product_id":"2026200014068-secondhand-life-with-father","title":"Life With Father","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew memoirs capture the warmth and absurdity of family life with the precision and wit of Life With Father, Clarence Day's beloved autobiographical masterpiece. Set in late 19th-century New York, the book chronicles the Day household through a series of vignettes centred on the formidable, red-haired Clarence Day Sr. — a Wall Street broker of volcanic temperament and iron certainty — and the gentle, enduring comedy that unfolds between him and his long-suffering yet quietly triumphant wife and four sons.\n\nWritten with a light, elegant touch that belies its sharp satirical intelligence, Day's prose is a masterclass in the understated art of comic observation, drawing from his own childhood memories to paint a portrait of Victorian American domesticity that is at once intimate and universal. This Reader's Digest World's Best Reading edition, illustrated by Mick Ellison and with an afterword by Robert M. Brown, presents the text in a handsome format befitting its status as an enduring classic of American letters. Originally published in 1935 after its celebrated run in *The New Yorker*, Life With Father went on to become one of the longest-running Broadway plays in history — testament to a story whose charm, humanity, and irresistible comedy refuse to age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161013657819,"sku":"2026200014068-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e7d14cb1-3a02-4328-baa6-e4d15cd18071.png?v=1787189029","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014068-secondhand-life-with-father","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}