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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Gonville Subtitle: A Memoir Author: Peter Birkenhead Narrator: Peter Birkenhead Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 06-04-10 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A frequent contributor to such high-profile publications as GQ and the Los Angeles Times, Peter Birkenhead is perhaps best known for his widely read essays and cultural musings on Salon.com. In Gonville, Birkenhead wields his cuts-to-the-bone prose in a memoir focusing largely on a father who is at once a magnetic personality and a violent, cruel force. In powerful and spirited prose, he recounts a childhood spent trying to make sense of his father, who brutalized his family physically and emotionally at the same time that he enchanted them with his passion and whimsy. An avid gun collector yet an anti-war activist, a pop