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Everyday Madness - On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love (Hardcover, Edition)
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Everyday Madness - On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love (Hardcover, Edition)
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'The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the
kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year
it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it
every day.' After the death of her partner of thirty-two years,
Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and
superstition in which sanity felt elusive. The dead of prior
generations loomed large and haunting. Then, too, the cultural and
political moment seemed to collude with her condition: everywhere
people were dislocated and angry. In this electrifying and brave
examination of an ordinary enough death and its aftermath,
Appignanesi uses all her evocative and analytic powers to
scrutinize her own and our society's experience of grieving, the
effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our
lives. With searing honesty, lashed by humour, she navigates us
onto the terrain of childhood, the way it forms our feelings of
love and hate, and steers us towards a less tumultuous version of
the everyday. This book may be short, but life, death, madness,
love, and grandchildren, are all there - seen through the eyes of a
writer who is ever aware of the historical and current vagaries of
woman's condition.
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