The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order - Couverture souple

Wickersham, Joan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156033801 ISBN 13 : 9780156033800

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2009

Synopsis

When you kill yourself, you kill every memory everyone has of you. You’re saying “I’m gone and you can’t even be sure who it is that’s gone, because you never knew me.”

Sixteen years ago, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. His death made a mystery of his entire life. Using an index—that most formal and orderly of structures—Wickersham explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality. Every bit of family history—marriage, parents, business failures—and every encounter with friends, doctors, and other survivors exposes another facet of elusive truth. Dark, funny, sad, and gripping, at once a philosophical and deeply personal exploration, The Suicide Index is, finally, a daughter’s anguished, loving elegy to her father.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joan Wickersham is the author of four books, including The Suicide Index, a National Book Award finalist. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has published essays and reviews in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the International Herald Tribune, and she has contributed on-air essays to National Public Radio. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156033801
• ISBN 13: 9780156033800
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 330
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