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All Things Consoled (Hardcover)
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All Things Consoled (Hardcover)
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Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for
Non-fiction A poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about
the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by a
prizewinning author. From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most
celebrated novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about
the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their
daughter. Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an
artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and principled
schoolteacher with an explosive temper. Elizabeth, the so-called
difficult child, always suspected she would end up caring for them
in their final years, in part to atone for her childhood sins.
Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre". All Things Consoled
takes you inside the massacre as Hay's ferociously independent
parents become increasingly dependent on her. With remarkable wit
and honesty, Hay lays bare the agony of a family coping as old age
turns into the tragedy of living too long. In the end she arrives
at a more nuanced understanding of her mother and father, and of
herself as their daughter. They were and remain the two vivid
giants in her life.
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