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Companion to an Untold Story (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
Marcia Aldrich
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Description for Companion to an Untold Story (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Bhatnagar, Supriya. Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
When Marcia Aldrich's friend took his own life at the age of forty-six, they had known each other many years. As part of his preparations for death, he gave her many of his possessions, concealing his purposes in doing so, and when he committed his long-contemplated act, he was alone in a bare apartment.
In Companion to an Untold Story, Aldrich struggles with her own failure to act on her suspicions about her friend's intentions. She pieces together the rough outline of his plan to die and the details of its execution. Yet she acknowledges that she cannot provide ... Read more
When Marcia Aldrich's friend took his own life at the age of forty-six, they had known each other many years. As part of his preparations for death, he gave her many of his possessions, concealing his purposes in doing so, and when he committed his long-contemplated act, he was alone in a bare apartment.
In Companion to an Untold Story, Aldrich struggles with her own failure to act on her suspicions about her friend's intentions. She pieces together the rough outline of his plan to die and the details of its execution. Yet she acknowledges that she cannot provide ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820349800
SKU
V9780820349800
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About Marcia Aldrich
Marcia Aldrich is a professor of English at Michigan State University, USA and the former editor of the journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. She is the author of the memoir Girl Rearing: A Memoir of a Girlhood Gone Astray. Her nonfiction essays have been published in a wide variety of literary reviews and anthologies, including The Best American Essays. ... Read more
Reviews for Companion to an Untold Story (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
Exquisitely sad but painstaking in its clarity, Companion to an Untold Story is an effort to understand a friend's decision to commit suicide. The author lays out the facts and emotions using the structure of an abecedary, as if the simplicity of a child's alphabet book could bring logic to the terrible puzzle of loss. There is no suspense in ... Read more