Is it the role of children to watch over their parents?
Even more so when you are a little boy raised by a single mother?
Well, alone… The term is not entirely accurate.
Because if the father is absent from his childhood, this stranger is omnipresent in the life of the narrator who became a successful writer at the age of 27 with the publication of his first novel,
Frog Pond
, in 1980. A book translated into many languages including French.
And the subject, obviously, was about his family life.
Particularly on his mother, Ava Altman, brilliant literary critic at the head of the
New Yorker
.
A position for which she gave everything.
But back to childhood.
Frederic Altman grew up in an apartment on Freeman Street, in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he was pampered until the age of 11 by Rose, his beloved nurse, who protected the little boy from Ava's changing moods, between episodes of intense exaltation and deep depression.
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