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Cargando... The Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss (edición 2007)por Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Información de la obraThe Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss por Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent. ( ) Part memoir and part sociological study, [The Empty Room] uses personal remembrance and interviews to study the grief felt by siblings who have lost a brother or sister. The author was the sister of one of the "bubble boys," and the fame of his case was often overwhelming for her and her family after he died. She charts her own attempts to grieve her brother and to understand the grief of her parents. At the same time, she interweaves the recollections of other siblings who have lost one or more brothers or sisters (including an interesting chapter on twins). The book is interesting for someone in the process of grieving, but is equally interesting on its own. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Ted is Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn's older brother, best friend, and the "ringmaster of her days." On a September morning when she is six, she wakes up and Ted is gone. Her parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while. "A while" turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble, where he dies of a rare autoimmune disease at age seventeen. The Empty Room is DeVita-Raeburn's unflinching, often haunting recollection of life with Ted, woven into a larger exploration of the enormous -- and often unacknowledged -- impact of a sister's or brother's death on remaining siblings. With an inspired blend of life experience, journalistic acumen, and research training, DeVita-Raeburn draws on interviews of more than two hundred survivors to render a powerful portrait of the range of conditions and emotions, from withdrawal to guilt to rage, that attend such loss. Finding little in professional literature, she realizes that those who suffer are the experts. And in the end, it is DeVita-Raeburn and her experts who present a larger, more complex understanding of the sibling bond, the lifelong impact of the severing of that bond, and the tools needed to heal and move forward. The Empty Room is a fascinating literary hybrid in which Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn seamlessly fuses deeply affecting remembrance with a pragmatic, lucidly written exploration of the healing journey. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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