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The Long Goodbye
Meghan O'Rourke
其他書名
A Memoir of Grief
出版Virago, 2012
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsFamily & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement
ISBN18440867719781844086771
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JsIWKQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.