Completing the Circle: A Son's Memoir - Couverture souple

Kates, David

 
9780595334506: Completing the Circle: A Son's Memoir

Synopsis

From the darkest tunnel, through a prism, David A. Kates renders the life and death of his mother, Judy, with searing love and feisty insight. The voice of this young poet-son lingers long after the burn of the final phrase. -Martha FullerInstructor, Otis College of Art + Design, UCLA Extension, and UC Irvine ExtensionWhat does a person do when his mother passes away from metastatic breast cancer, and he inherits grief, a townhouse, guilt, lipstick-stained tissues, flowers, a baby grand piano, melancholia, and a highly altered life?He writes!Completing the Circle: A Son's Memoir is vivid storytelling set in a much-loved home among the stark mountains and vast Pacific Ocean of Pacific Palisades, CA.Completing the Circle mixes poetry and short stories to shed light on cancer, mortality, the mother/son relationship, bereavement, happiness, and dealing with change.Completing the Circle concludes:"A lot of tears stain this book,As well asA lot of hope for a vigorous future."

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9780595669387: Completing the Circle: A Son's Memoir

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ISBN 10 :  0595669387 ISBN 13 :  9780595669387
Editeur : iUniverse, 2004
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