Love Anyhow: Famous Fathers Write to Their Children

by Reid Sherline (Editor)

This book, the companion volume to Letters Celebrated Authors Write to Their Children, collects letters of advice from mostly famous fathers to their children. From writers, politicians, and even from the father of psychoanalysis himself, the letters included in this anthology are profound and trivial, wise and not so wise - but always entertaining.
What is gathered here is more than mere advice; it is an intimate, insider's look at the range and complexity of the father-child relationship. The fathers represented in Love Anyhow advise their children on everything from education to career, from God and religion to love and sex - and they do more. They reach across time to speak to younger versions of themselves. And there is also the ever-present, unstated tensions between giver and receiver.
Fatherly love, one realizes, should be taken as it comesand that, more often than not, is as exhortation and admonishment, with an added burden of expectation and unfinished business.

108 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1994

Reviews

[Barbra · Rating 3 out of 5]

The highlight for me: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s letter to his daughter.