Beyond the High Blue Air

A Memoir

Lu Spinney (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2016 | Main
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-78239-887-5 (ISBN)

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This searingly honest, beautifully crafted memoir is a testament to the fierce power of maternal love.

Aged just 29, gifted, athletic and loved, Lu Spinney's son Miles was on the brink of a brilliant future. Then a snowboarding accident changed everything. He suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma.

With unflinching honesty, Lu has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following Miles's accident, revealing his existence imprisoned in a limbo of fluctuating consciousness, at times agonizingly aware of his predicament. Beyond the High Blue Air explores the nature of self when all means of communication are lost, the anguish of witnessing Miles's suffering and the slow-dawning recognition by his family that, though Miles had been prevented from dying, he had not been brought back to a meaningful life. Beyond the High Blue Air is a bold, raw, courageous memoir: a testament to the fierce power of maternal love.

Lu Spinney was born in Cape Town and spent her childhood on a farm in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, later moving with her family to the Indian Ocean coast north of Durban. After university, she left South Africa to live in Nice and Paris, before settling in London.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 217 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
Schlagworte	Englisch; Biografien/Erinnerungen
ISBN-10	1-78239-887-2 / 1782398872
ISBN-13	978-1-78239-887-5 / 9781782398875
Zustand	Neuware