In the Air of an Afternoon Almost Past: A memoir of loss - Couverture souple

Goers, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1743059949 ISBN 13 : 9781743059944

Editeur : Wakefield Press, 2023

Synopsis

These events, foretold, are of forty years ago. They were a surreal blur then and remain so. A fever dream that was tragically real. Even with the clarity of time, there is only distance. And the need to understand. I suppose it is a long overdue, long goodbye.

Grief is a great theme of our times and this is a memoir of grief in action.

On the tempest-tossed afternoon of 9 July 1982, Pan Am flight 759 crashed into a suburb of New Orleans shortly after takeoff. Eight people on the ground and all 145 passengers died, among them Peter Goers's parents, Margaret and Brian Goers, aged 50 and 52. Peter, busy with his promising career as a director, had not said goodbye.

Peter left for the US the next day, summoned to identify the bodies. These are his impressions of a strange and tragic journey full of potent memory, loss, poignant candour, wisdom and family redemption.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Goers is a reformed social irritant. Since 1971 he has worked as actor, director, designer, critic, academic and entertainer on two continents. He began writing for the Advertiser in 1985 and has contributed a weekly opinion column in the Sunday Mail since 1991. Peter Goers has won eleven awards as presenter, since 2003, of the Evening Show on ABC Radio Adelaide, across South Australia and into the Silver City of Broken Hill, and in 2013 he was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the arts, community and public broadcasting.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wakefield Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1743059949
• ISBN 13: 9781743059944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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