Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery Tapa blanda - 2000

Duke University Press, 2000. Book. Binding Tight, Pages Bright. Wraps (Paperback). Pages unblemished..

Duke University Press, 2000. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Duke University Press Books. Paperback. 0822325438 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches From Publishers Weekly Reading Lazarre's (Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons) latest is like spending time with a friend, albeit an intense and occasionally neurotic one who can lapse into trendy psychobabble ("I must recover this desire so its hopelessness can be separated from all other desires, its horrible futility leaving me with shame or with dread or with nothing or with rage"). What Lazarre desires is her mother, who died of breast cancer when Lazarre was seven. That experience shaped Lazarre's life and this engrossing memoir. Grief and recovery figure heavily in the narrative, in which she copes with her own breast cancer and, in the process, comes to terms with her mother's death and the silence in which her family shrouded it. But this is no exercise in self-pity and self-absorption, nor is it a one-dimensional look at illness. Lazarre does offer vivid and… Leer más

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Duke University Press Books, 2000-09-18. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!