Father and Son

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANTHONY QUINN andAN AFTERWORD BY SARAH PERRYSubtitled a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosses childhood memoir tells the often fractious often comic story of his relationship with his authoritarian father. A pioneering naturalist and marine biologist Philip Henry Gosses strictly religious world view is brought into crisis with the discoveries of Charles Darwin and as the younger Edmund struggles to break away from his fathers influence he begins to discover himself.