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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.

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Book category Books in English Health & personal development Family & health Coping with personal problems

• Full title: Long Goodbye
• Author: Meghan O´Rourke
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781844086771
• ISBN: 1844086771
• ID: 04455510
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 222 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. April 2012

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