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.
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- Authors:
- O'Rourke, Meghan
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781844086771
- Number of Pages:
- 320
- Publication Date:
- 05/04/2012
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Year Published:
- 2012
- Publication Date:
- 05/04/2012
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781844086771