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Dad (novel)Dad is the second novel by the American novelist William Wharton. It is "a story of fathers and sons drawn from relationship with his own dying father". The novel was published in 1981 following Birdy (1978). It deals with a Paris-based American artist who is called to his mother's bedside as she has had a serious heart attack. It was one of the three novels by Wharton which was adapted into a movie, the other two being Birdy and A Midnight Clear.

Plot
The novel has a "double plot" in which we read about the protagonist's relation, as a son, with his father and, as a father, with his son.

John Tremont, a middle-aged American artist living with his wife and children in Paris, is summoned home to the US to his mother's bedside who has had a heart attack. This starts a long journey in which John, who is later joined by his college-aged son Bill, learns a lot about what it means to be a father and to get old as well as a new definition of love. The story deals with three generations each of which has a different way of seeing family relations as well as the world, but ultimately there is a common thread transcending generation gaps, a "love that binds generations".

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