Death in Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's
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Book Overview A raw, unsentimental and passionately written memoir about trying to care for a parent with Alzheimer'sWhen her once-glamorous and witty ...
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.
This is a story told with the searing honesty and dark humor that can only come from a love tested to its limits.
- A Caregiver's Story: Eleanor moves her once-vibrant novelist mother from Connecticut to California, only to find herself descending into her own despair as she confronts the daily realities of Alzheimer's.
- Unflinching Honesty: This is not a sentimental story. Cooney confronts the slow, brutal erosion of her mother's mind--and her own sanity--with raw, searing prose that refuses to look away.
- Dark Humor: Find moments of unexpected, pitch-black comedy in the absurdity and heartbreak of a disease that turns a once-witty woman into a stranger in her own life.
- A Vanished World: As her mother's memories fade, the author brings to life their actual past--a childhood straight out of John Cheever and a daring, brilliant woman who no longer exists.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 272 | Language: English | Publisher: PERENNIAL | ISBN: 0060937971
FormatPaperback
Pages272
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0060937971
EAN9780060937973
PublisherPERENNIAL
Publication Date2021-06-17
EditionReprint
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.44 Pounds
Length8.02 Inches
Width5.24 Inches
Height0.66 Inches
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