The Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief Book

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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    * 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...

  • 1844086755
  • 9781844086757
  • Meghan O'Rourke
  • 25 August 2011
  • Virago Press Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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