The Long Goodbye: A Memoir - Couverture rigide

O'Rourke, Meghan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844086755 ISBN 13 : 9781844086757

Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

The Long Goodbye * A young woman's memoir of a year of grieving after her mother died, written with anger, insight, wisdom and grace

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but also at the inability of people to acknowledge her pain; her sense that the meaning of her life had changed fundamentally with the loss of a parent; the way that the reassuringly familiar often became somehow completely new and strange. The Long Goodbye interleaves personal recollections of her much-loved mother with an examination of what it means to grieve in a society which no longer has the rituals - or even, most of the time, the desire - to engage with grief, to understand it, and to let it do both its worst - and its best.

Biographie de l'auteur

Meghan O'Rourke was born in 1976 and lives in New York with her husband. She is a frequent contributor to Slate, a founding editor of Double X, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She has published one volume of poetry.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844086755
• ISBN 13: 9781844086757
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320