The Long Awakening: A Memoir - Brossura

O connor, Lindsey

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ISBN 10: 0800723171 ISBN 13: 9780800723170

Casa editrice: Fleming H Revell Co, 2013

Riassunto

In this lyrical memoir, a journalist tells her compelling story of waking from a two-month coma after childbirth, then struggling to put together the pieces of the miracle she received--but missed.

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L'autore:

Lindsey O'Connor is an author, a freelance journalist, and a speaker who has contributed to public radio'sWeekend America, WashingtonPost.com, The Rocky Mountain News, Christianity Today,Writer's Digest, Guideposts, and others. She has reported internationally, is a former broadcaster, was a finalist for an Audie Award, and is a member of The Association of Independents in Radio and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She and her family live in Colorado.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

"A searingly honest story of one woman's awakening from a coma after her baby's birth--and her long road back . . . . Unforgettable."--Eric Metaxas,New York Times bestselling author

"Brilliant and renewing. A spectacular work of reflection, remembering, reconciling, and recovering. Memoir writing at its finest."--Patricia Raybon, author ofMy First White Friend and I Told the Mountain to Move

"Good things often happen when a great story meets a talented storyteller. But Lindsey O'Connor's grasp of literary journalism gives this personal narrative much more substance than the typical memoir. Strong reporting places her experience in larger contexts that add depth and understanding. A true story in the deepest sense of the word."--Jack Hart, author ofStorycraft, writing coach, former managing editor of The Oregonian, and editor of two Pulitzer Prize-winning stories

"A lyrical, stunning tale of one woman's return to life. A laughing, weeping story of a family finding their way back home."--Claire Díaz-Ortiz, author, social innovation at Twitter, Inc.

"O'Connor takes us into the groundlessness of intense trauma and reentry, and candidly (sometimes brutally so) shows what it is to resist, receive, andbe . . . grace."--Laura Munson, author of the New York Times and international bestsellerThis Is Not the Story You Think It Is

"Be careful picking up The Long Awakening because you may be unable to put it down. This is a moving, intimate story, arrestingly written, that glimmers with a keen understanding of what matters."--John Biewen, audio program director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and editor of Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound

"For Lindsey O'Connor, surviving a 47-day coma was only prologue to a miraculous story of science, doubt, faith, and love. Hers is an astonishing narrative, courageously told."--David Schulman, former senior producer, BBC'sAmericana and creator of public radio's Musicians in Their Own Words

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Fleming H Revell Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0800723171
• ISBN 13: 9780800723170
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 237