Guesswork (eBook)

Martha Cooley (Autor)

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2017
192 Seiten
Counterpoint Press (Verlag)
978-1-936787-47-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Part memoir, part loving goodbye to an unconventional parent, Guesswork transforms a year in a pastoral hilltown into a fierce examination of life, death, grief, and—release.

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In this ';splendid and subtle memoir,' a young woman spends a year in an Italian village reflecting on both beauty and grief (The New York Times Book Review). Having lost eight friends in ten years, Martha Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines a question both easily evaded and unavoidable: mortality. How do we grieve? How do we go on drinking our morning coffee, loving our life partners, stumbling through a world of such confusing, exquisite beauty? Linking the essays is Cooley's escalating understanding of another loss on the way, that of her ailing mother back in the States. Blind since Cooley's childhood, her mother relies on dry wit to ward off grief and pity. There seems no way for the two of them to discuss her impending death. But somehow, by the end, Cooley finds the words, each one graceful and wrenching. Part memoir, part loving goodbye to an unconventional parent,Guessworktransforms a year in a pastoral hill town into a fierce examination of life, love, death, and, ultimately, release.

Autor

Martha Cooley is the author of the national bestseller The Archivist and Thirty-Three Swoons. The Archivist was a New York Times Notable Book and a New and Noteworthy paperback. Cooley is currently a contributing editor at A Public Space. Her co-translations of Italian fiction and poetry include Antonio Tabucchi’s story collection Time Ages in a Hurry. A professor of English at Adelphi University, Cooley divides her time between Queens, New York, and Castiglione del Terziere, Italy. Her American cat, Zora, is named after one of the cities in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and their Italian cat, Tristana, is named after the medieval knight.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: archivist book • book about grief and loss • Death • death of friends • family memoir • friends death • Grief • grief help • grief memoir • grief recovery • how to greive • how to grieve the loss of a friend • how to grieve the loss of a parent • italian author • Loss • martha coley • martha cooly • martha kooley • new york author • travel and grief • Travel Memoir • unconventional family
• ISBN-10: 1-936787-47-4 / 1936787474
• ISBN-13: 978-1-936787-47-0 / 9781936787470