The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
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The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

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Meghan O'Rourke (Author)  

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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.
Meghan O'Rourke was born in 1976 and lives in New York with her husband. She is a frequent contributor to Slate, a founding editor of Double X, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She has published one volume of poetry.
  • Contributor: Meghan O'Rourke
  • Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781844086771
  • Number of Pages: 320
  • Packaged Dimensions: 128x198x21mm
  • Packaged Weight: 260
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Release Date: 2012-04-05
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Meghan O'Rourke was born in 1976 and lives in New York with her husband. She is a frequent contributor to Slate, a founding editor of Double X, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She has published one volume of poetry.

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