Description
| Product ID: | 9781844086771 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Long Goodbye |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir |
| Authors: | Author: Meghan O'Rourke |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating * A young woman's memoir of a year of grieving after her mother died, written with anger, insight, wisdom and grace 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-04-05 |