Meghan O'Rourke The Long Goodbye (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Long GoodbyeCondition: NewEAN: 9781844086771ISBN: 9781844086771Publisher: Virago Press LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/05/2012Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 260gAuthor: Meghan O'RourkeLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A MemoirISBN-10: 1844086771Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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