Hanging with the Elephant

A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation

Michael Harding (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2014
Hachette Books Ireland (Verlag)
978-1-4447-8313-1 (ISBN)

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In his new book, Hanging with the Elephant, writer Michael Harding is back in Leitrim in the north-west of Ireland. His wife has left for a six-week trip to Poland and he is alone for the first time since his illness two years earlier. Faced with this time on his own, Harding resolves to examine the threat of depression that is a constant presence in his life and his dependency on his wife, the beloved, since his illness. But, as he attempts to tame the 'elephant' - an Asian metaphor for the unruly mind - he finds himself drawn back to the death of his mother during the summer of 2012.
Written with unflinching honesty, Hanging with the Elephant begins as one man's quest to overcome his demons, but becomes a journey into the depths of the soul, where we are given a glimpse of the one thing that holds us all.

Michael Harding is an author and playwright. His creative chronicle of ordinary life in the Irish midlands is published as a weekly column in The Irish Times. He has written numerous plays for the Abbey Theatre, including Una Pooka, Misogynist and Sour Grapes, and has published three novels, Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion and Bird in the Snow as well as a bestselling memoir, Staring at Lakes, which won three BGE Irish Book awards.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.10.2014
Verlagsort	Castleknock
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 233 mm
Gewicht	404 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Schlagworte	Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-4447-8313-0 / 1444783130
ISBN-13	978-1-4447-8313-1 / 9781444783131
Zustand	Neuware