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.
The Long Goodbye
R218,20
Categories: Biography & True Stories, English, Fiction & Literature, History, Language, Non-fiction
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ISBN | 9780748130610 |
Number Of Pages | 288 |
File Size | 0.81 mb |
Format | EPUB |
Published | 25-01-2011 |