Death in Slow Motion: My Mother's Descent into Alzheimer's - Rilegato

Cooney, Eleanor

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0066213967 ISBN 13: 9780066213965

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2003

Riassunto

An unsentimental account of a daughter's witness to her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's describes the challenging process of caring for her mother through the stages of the disease and how it compromised their formerly close relationship

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Recensione:

“A strong and honest book.” (Lewis Lapham, Editor of Harper's Magazine)

“Well-written [and] harrowing.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Cooney tells it all with a fine and rare mix of black humor and bleak honesty.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Poignant...terrific.... Consider it a must-read.” (Booklist)

“Novelist Cooney has woven keen insights, beloved memories and painful despair into a new memoir.” (BookPage)

“Cooney creates that eye-of-the-hurricane feeling, of life destroyed and made meaningless by loss, that this topic deserves.” (Book Magazine)

“Heartfelt and exquisitely narrated...Immensely moving and terrifyingly funny.... Vibrant and compelling.... (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Death In Slow Motion is a brutally honest, yet remarkably funny and deeply wise book. (Hartford Courant)

“Cooney chronicles her mother’s gradual, grinding dissolution...in wry, learned prose.” (Time magazine)

“Cooney’s memoir... is too fierce and unsparing, too honest and outraged, to be read complacently.” (Chicago Tribune Book Review)

L'autore:

Eleanor Cooney has published four novels. She lives in Mendocino, California.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0066213967
• ISBN 13: 9780066213965
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 251