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The Iceberg - A Memoir (Hardcover, Main)
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The Iceberg - A Memoir (Hardcover, Main)
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Discovery Miles 3 800
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In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain
tumour. The tumour was located in the area controlling speech and
language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. He
died early in 2011. Marion Coutts was his wife. In short bursts of
beautiful, textured prose, Coutts describes the eighteen months
leading up to her partner's death. This book is an account of a
family unit, man, woman, young child, under assault, and how the
three of them fought to keep it intact. Written with extraordinary
narrative force and power, The Iceberg is almost shocking in its
rawness. It charts the deterioration of Tom's speech even as it
records the developing language of his child. Fury, selfishness,
grief, indignity and impotence are all examined and brought to
light. Yet out of this comes a rare story about belonging, an
'adventure of being and dying'. This book is a celebration of each
other, friends, family, art, work, love and language.
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