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The author, a literary critic from England with an affinity for the great novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries, tackles Big Things like theology, literature and faith in his own first novel, the tale of a shiftless intellectual whose spiritual crisis is linked to his difficult father, a parish priest with a suspicious resemblance to that other Father.
Douby has described Ringel as "like my other father".
There are other father figures in this series.
Mandy Patinkin is his other father figure, Joseph Papp, who nurtured "Short Eyes".
Other Father: "All you've got to do is be Bobby's friend.
But at the moment, the only other father among the top 20 is Gilles Simon, No.12 this week.
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(The other father-son Hall of Fame members are the Steelers' Art and Dan Rooney).
Ms. Belniak said plans for this national tournament included preliminary challenge matches with local celebrities and family matches such as teams of brothers against each other, father-daughter matches, mother-son competitions and married couples against other married couples.
But he sees his father through his death with great care and tenderness, and writes this story in a way that -- unlike many other father-son sports memoirs -- makes it bigger rather than smaller than the football story it parallels.
And as the action develops and the excitement builds, we realise that we are being presented at the same time with a very subtle portrait of the guilts and griefs – and the attractions and revulsions that flow from these things – that form the foundation of this and many other father-son relationships.
That "Daddy", conflating the paternalism of the medical profession and the patriarchy of the church, also reminds one of the other father-figures in Molloy's poetry; her daddy "in a grave where there's room for more", and the sinister figure in "Happy Families" with its tacit suggestion of child abuse (a topic handled, head-on, in "Ghost Train").
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com