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Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking
Michael Harding
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Description for Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSK; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 232.
Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained. When he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately, he found a way out of the dark, by accepting ... Read more
Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained. When he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately, he found a way out of the dark, by accepting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Castleknock, Ireland
ISBN
9781444743500
SKU
9781444743500
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About Michael Harding
Michael Harding has worked in theatre as an actor, director and writer. Most widely known as the author of such plays as Strawboys, Una Pooka, Misogynist, Hubert Murray's Widow, Sour Grapes, and Amazing Grace, all produced by the Abbey Theatre, and more than a dozen other plays for leading Irish Companies, including The Kiss, Talking Through his Hat, and Swallow. ... Read more
Reviews for Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking
'It's rare for a memoir to demand such intense emotional involvement, and rarer still for it to be so fully rewarded.'
Sunday Times 'This frank and unflinching memoir offers a fascinating insight into the mind of the author of two of the finest Irish novels of the eighties'
Pat McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto 'This memoir grabs ... Read more
Sunday Times 'This frank and unflinching memoir offers a fascinating insight into the mind of the author of two of the finest Irish novels of the eighties'
Pat McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto 'This memoir grabs ... Read more