Godwin Gail - Getting To Know Death A Meditation - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: " Getting to Know Death could just as easily be called Getting to Know Life. As a meditation it is both unsentimental and full of wonder. As a piece of writing it stands beside the best of Godwin's fiction. Extraordinary." - Ann Patchett From New York Times - bestselling three - time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin a consideration of what makes for a life well lived - for readers of Oliver Sacks's Gratitude and Deborah Levy's Cost of Living. I can't see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better. This is my life but I may not get to do what I want in it. Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her neck while watering the dogwood tree in her garden at age eighty - five a lifetime of writing and publishing behind her and a half - finished novel in tow Bergman's idea quickly unfurled in front of her forcing her to confront a creative life interrupted. In Getting to Know Death Godwin shares what spoke to her while in a desperate place. Remembering those she has loved and survived including a brother and father lost to suicide and finding meaning in the encounters she has with other patients as she heals she takes stock of a life toward the end of its long graceful arc finding her path through the words she has written and the people she has loved. At once beautiful biting precise poetic and propulsive Getting to Know Death is her own reckoning with the meaning of a life the forms of passion that guide it and how the stories we hold can shape our memories and preserve our selves as we write our own endings.
Title: Getting To Know Death A Meditation
Author(s): Godwin Gail
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
Barcode: 9781639734443
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 6/11/2024
Category: Memoirs