Ackerley, J. R., introduction by W. H. Auden, — My Father and Myself.

NY, New York Review Books, (1999). Reprint. VG PB. Ackerley's father was the Banana King, a successful importer of fruit and a bluff, hearty fellow, little appreciated by his. refined & literary son. On his death the father left a letter revealing that his life of respectable prosperity had been a facade. Ackerley began a quest to comprehend a father always just beyond his reach. A pathbreakingly honest redering of a gay man's life and desires.