Gift of Time: A Family's Diary of Cancer - Couverture souple

MacLean, Geography Of Heaven Rory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780332335 ISBN 13 : 9781780332338

Editeur : Constable, 2013

Synopsis

When his mother Joan was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Rory MacLean and his wife Katrin took her into their home. For five months, as their life fragmented and turned inward, they fought both to resist and to accept the inevitable. Each gave vent to their emotions in different ways, but all three kept a diary.

Heartbreakingly honest and deeply moving, Gift of Time is the story of those days, in the words of a son, his wife and his mother. Woven together into a poignant meditation on life and death, they illuminate the courage and dignity of one woman who confronted what we all must face. Threaded through with wisdom and guilt, anger and acceptance, the story is punctuated by a family wedding and the hope of new life, by bin-bags of old letters and books rediscovered, by the end of winter and the first signs of spring.

Powerful, raw and urgent, this slender volume is above all a celebration of life. Capturing every moment of beauty and pain it acknowledges that what survives all of us is love.

Praise for Rory MacLean's previous titles:

Stalin's Nose: 'The most extraordinary debut in travel writing since In Patagonia. A dark, sardonic and brilliant book which grows in stature with every page' William Dalrymple

'A surreal masterpiece' Colin Thubron

The Oatmeal Ark: 'One of the most original and innovative travel books for years.' Alexander Frater

'A truly astonishing performance' Jan Morris

'Such a book as this rather marvellously explains why literature still lives.' John Fowles

Under the Dragon: 'I cannot imagine a better book on the beauty and terror of Burma. Read it. Read it. Read it.' Fergal Keane

'It will make you cry and it will give you hope. ... It is astonishingly good.' Jeanette Winterson.

Magic Bus: 'A disturbing, gripping and intensely passionate story' Esther Freud.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rory MacLean is one of Britain's most expressive and adventurous non-fiction writers. His books - which have been translated into a dozen languages - include the UK top tens Stalin's Nose and Under the Dragon as well as Berlin: Imagine a City, 'the most extraordinary work of history I've ever read' according to the Washington Post which named it a Book of the Year. He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England and been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. 'MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time,' wrote the late John le Carré. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Constable
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780332335
• ISBN 13: 9781780332338
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible