When Things Get Back to Normal - Brossura

M.T. Dohaney

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0864923384 ISBN 13: 9780864923387

Casa editrice: Goose Lane Editions, 2002

Riassunto

One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney's husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again. Without warning, Jean was plunged into the most painful and disorienting experience of her life. Faced with a tumult of emotions and sudden responsibilities, she turned to her writing for solace and began a journal. In her journal, Dohaney's sharp sense of humour and her impatience with conventional pieties lay bare the depth of her bereavement, yet at the same time they express the life force within her. She is frank about her anger at Walt for playing hockey despite his heart condition and for not being there to take care of the house and family; she faces her annoyance at sincere well-wishers who say exactly the wrong thing; and she exposes her distressing loneliness.

When Things Get Back to Normal is a compassionate yet bracing companion for those struck down by loss, which indirectly gives practical advice about the changes that come with widowhood. Two years after her husband's death, Jean agreed to publish her journal. When Things Get Back to Normal gained critical acclaim when it was first published in 1989, but its finest praise came from the dozens of people who wrote and called to tell the author how it had helped them through their own grief. When Jean's novel A Fit Month for Dying was released in 2000, the publicity surrounding the book prompted a flurry of phone calls to the publisher from people seeking copies of When Things Get Back to Normal.

During the next year Goose Lane Editions sought out and acquired the book and the new edition was released, due in no small part to the many readers who took the book, and Jean Dohaney, into their hearts. Author Helen Fogwill Porter was one of the many that found strength in When Things Get Back to Normal when her husband died, and her introduction to this new edition offers her own experience of "normalcy." Jean Dohaney's new afterword tells where she is now, fifteen years after Walt's death.

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After her husband's sudden death, novelist M.T. Dohaney wrote a year-long journal detailing her touching and sometimes humourous experiences with grief and loss.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Goose Lane Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0864923384
• ISBN 13: 9780864923387
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 122
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile