My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force — John Burnside, A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force — John Burnside, A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force — John Burnside, A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force — John Burnside, A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force — John Burnside, A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
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My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]

— John Burnside, A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
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