Novelist & Storyteller, The Life of C. S. Forester by John Forester, --C. S. Forester, a great storyteller, created his own l public life as his most successful fiction. You who read his books with pleasure will recognize his ability to persuade you that he is describing reality. Forester had developed and honed this storytelling skill from childhood, and he used it throughout his life to manipulate others, to persuade others to share his view of who he really was: the emmariner-bodiment of the eighteenth-century man of reason. In a way, Hornblower was Forester as he wished that he had the courage to be, but knew he couldn't be. However, since Forester was both a storyteller and a writer, both of published works and private letters, and since he was both a part of his parents' family and had a family of his own, there is sufficient evidence to put together the real story of his life and character, his works and his personal relationships. The real story discloses not only why his books are as they are, but also the effect of successful, self-centered storytelling on those closest to him. "I have written what is both a biography of my father and a father-and-son tale of illusion and disillusion." -- John Forester.  The resultant biography provides an intense scrutiny of a complex, secretive, and manipulative man who wrote some of the most popular fiction of the middle twentieth century.  Privately published, John Forester, 6X9 inches, (TWO VOLS.), signed and numbered, pages 826. P, Your Price 95.00, Book Number B01255. Add $9.00 for priority mail and insurance in the US. For shipping outside the US, add the actual US postage cost to the $9.00 shipping cost. (Use www.usps.gov. to determine postal cost, using weight of 3 pounds and intended destination.) , B00916.