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The long goodbye / Meghan O'Rourke.

Long good-bye (other title)
O'Rourke, Meghan. (Author).

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In this eloquent, somber memoir about the death of her mother and grieving aftermath, poet and journalist O'Rourke (Halflife) ponders the eternal human question: how do we live with the knowledge that we will one day die?

Record details

  • ISBN: 1594487987
  • ISBN: 9781594487989
  • Physical Description: 306 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2011]

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General Note:
"A memoir"--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306).

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Subject:
O'Rourke, Meghan.
Bereavement.
Grief.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters > United States > Biography.
Mothers > Death.
Poets, American > 21st century > Biography.
Mothers.
Genre:
Autobiographies.

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