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All Things Consoled

Af: Elizabeth Hay Engelsk Paperback

All Things Consoled

Af: Elizabeth Hay Engelsk Paperback
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Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers'' Trust Award for Non-fiction

A poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by a prizewinning author.

From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada''s most celebrated novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents'' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter.

Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and principled schoolteacher with an explosive temper. Elizabeth, the so-called difficult child, always suspected she would end up caring for them in their final years, in part to atone for her childhood sins.

Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre". All Things Consoled takes you inside the massacre as Hay''s ferociously independent parents become increasingly dependent on her.

With remarkable wit and honesty, Hay lays bare the agony of a family coping as old age turns into the tragedy of living too long. In the end she arrives at a more nuanced understanding of her mother and father, and of herself as their daughter. They were and remain the two vivid giants in her life.

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Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers'' Trust Award for Non-fiction

A poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by a prizewinning author.

From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada''s most celebrated novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents'' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter.

Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and principled schoolteacher with an explosive temper. Elizabeth, the so-called difficult child, always suspected she would end up caring for them in their final years, in part to atone for her childhood sins.

Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre". All Things Consoled takes you inside the massacre as Hay''s ferociously independent parents become increasingly dependent on her.

With remarkable wit and honesty, Hay lays bare the agony of a family coping as old age turns into the tragedy of living too long. In the end she arrives at a more nuanced understanding of her mother and father, and of herself as their daughter. They were and remain the two vivid giants in her life.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 0
ISBN-13: 9780857059123
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0857059122
Udg. Dato: 1 jan 1900
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 215mm
Højde: 136mm
Forlag: Quercus Publishing
Oplagsdato: 1 jan 1900
Forfatter(e): Elizabeth Hay
Forfatter(e) Elizabeth Hay


Kategori Selvbiografier: skønlitterære forfattere


ISBN-13 9780857059123


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 0


Udgave


Længde 27mm


Bredde 215mm


Højde 136mm


Udg. Dato 1 jan 1900


Oplagsdato 1 jan 1900


Forlag Quercus Publishing