Bad Dads

Zachary Leader

  • In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of a Lost War by Tobias Wolff
    Bloomsbury, 210 pp, £12.99, November 1994, ISBN 0 7475 1919 6
  • Tallien: A Brief Romance by Frederic Tuten
    Marion Boyars, 152 pp, £9.95, November 1994, ISBN 0 7145 2990 7
  • Roommates: My Grandfather’s Story by Max Apple
    Little Brown, 241 pp, £12.99, November 1994, ISBN 0 316 91241 7

Personal identity, according to Locke, is a creation of memory. The American writer Tobias Wolff has already published one volume of memoirs. Now, at the age of 49, he has produced a second. Who can blame him? His father was a conman and impostor: Arthur Samuels Wolff, aka Arthur Saunders Wolff III, aka Saunders Answell-Wolff III, the ‘Duke’ of Tobias’s brother Geoffrey’s memoir, The Duke of Deception (1979).

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