title: My Father's Footprints: A Memoir
author:  Colin McEnroe 
description: Here's an interesting way to write a memoir: backwards. The author begins with the passing of his father, playwright Robert McEnroe, and moves back through the years. We see a relationship developing in reverse, beginning with the son, a grown man, taking care of his father. Gradually, father and son assume their traditional roles: the author is a boy, and his father is the protector. Because of its structure, this memoir is far more touching and emotional than many similar remembrances of lost loved ones. The author shows us his father as he was before his death, with failing body and mind, and then leads us back through the years to let us see the strong, intelligent man he used to be. We see everything the father once was, and this allows us to understand, and even (to some degree) feel the son's loss. <i>David Pitt</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  _In His Father’s Footsteps_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
  and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Danielle Steel
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House,
  a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  DELACORTE PRESS and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin
  Random House LLC.
  
  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
  
  Names: Steel, Danielle, author.
  
  Title: In his father’s footsteps : a novel / Danielle Steel.
  
  Description: New York : Delacorte Press, [2018]
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2018014913 | ISBN 9780399179266 (hardback) | ISBN
  9780399179273 (ebook)
  
  Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Family Life. |
  FICTION / Romance / Contemporary.
  
  Classification: LCC PS35