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Cargando... Death in Slow Motion: My Mother's Descent into Alzheimer'spor Eleanor Cooney
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Review to come... ( ) Memoir of Cooney, whose mother, a dynamic writer who rubbed shoulders with John Huston, slowly declines into Alzheimer's. WIth limited financial resources, Cooney and her partner take her mother in and find themselves emotionally and physically exhausted by her mother's decline. An essentail read for the 15 million caretakers of those with memory loss. Highly recommended. (66) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A raw, unsentimental and passionately written memoir about trying to care for a parent with Alzheimer's When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair. But the coping mechanism that finally serves this eloquent writer best is writing, the ability to bring to vivid life the memories her mother is losing. As her mother gropes in the gathering darkness for a grip on the world she once loved, succeeding only in conjuring sad fantasies of places and times with her late husband, Cooney revisits their true past. Death in Slow Motion becomes the mesmerizing story of Eleanor's actual childhood, straight out of the pages of John Cheever; the daring and vibrant mother she remembers; and a time that no longer exists for either of them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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