The Long Goodbye - A Memoir (Paperback, Digital original)

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.

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	April 2012
Authors:	Meghan O'Rourke
Dimensions:	198 x 127 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	306
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-1-84408-677-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with death & bereavement Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-84408-677-1
Barcode:	9781844086771

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