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The Long Goodbye: A Memoir: A Memoir of Grief
Meghan O´rourke
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Description for The Long Goodbye: A Memoir: A Memoir of Grief
Paperback. * A young woman's memoir of a year of grieving after her mother died, written with anger, insight, wisdom and grace Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220.
Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but also at the inability of people to acknowledge her pain; her sense that the meaning of her life had changed fundamentally with the loss of a parent; the way that the reassuringly familiar often became somehow completely new and strange. The Long Goodbye interleaves personal recollections of her much-loved ... Read more
Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but also at the inability of people to acknowledge her pain; her sense that the meaning of her life had changed fundamentally with the loss of a parent; the way that the reassuringly familiar often became somehow completely new and strange. The Long Goodbye interleaves personal recollections of her much-loved ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844086771
SKU
V9781844086771
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About Meghan O´rourke
Meghan O'Rourke was born in 1976 and lives in New York with her husband. She is a frequent contributor to Slate, a founding editor of Double X, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She has published one volume of poetry.
Reviews for The Long Goodbye: A Memoir: A Memoir of Grief
Emotionally acute, strikingly empathetic, thorough and unstinting intellectually, and of course elegantly wrought. But it's above all a useful book, for life
the good bits and the sad ones, too. Richard Ford 'A beautiful memoir about ...loss of a truly irreplaceable mother
yes, it is sad, it is in fact heartrending, but it is many things more: courageous, inspiring, wonderfully ... Read more
the good bits and the sad ones, too. Richard Ford 'A beautiful memoir about ...loss of a truly irreplaceable mother
yes, it is sad, it is in fact heartrending, but it is many things more: courageous, inspiring, wonderfully ... Read more