On Vanishing (eBook)

Lynn Casteel Harper (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Catapult (Verlag)
978-1-948226-29-5 (ISBN)

Infos

For fans of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Eula Biss’s On Immunity, and Paul Kalinithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, On Vanishing offers an essential, empathic exploration of dementia, one of the most feared diseases in America, and in the process asks searching questions about what it means to face our own inevitable vanishing

Autor

Lynn Casteel Harper is a minister, chaplain, and essayist. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, North American Review, and Catapult magazine. She is a Barbara Deming Fund grant recipient and the winner of the 2017 Orison Anthology Prize in Nonfiction. She lives in New York City and is currently the minister of older adults at The Riverside Church.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Schlagworte: aging • alzheimers • Atul Gawande • Being Mortal • cory taylor • dementia • dementia essay • dementia memoir • dementia myths • dying a memoir • elderhood • empathy exams • esme weijun wang • Eula Biss • families with dementia • gerda saunders • hereditary dementia • i am i am i am • Leslie Jamison • life with dementia • louise aronson • Maggie O’farrell • memory’s last breath • mental aging • Mental Health • misconceptions alzheimers • nina riggs • On Immunity • On Vanishing • Paul Kalinithi • porochista khakpour • sick • the bright hour • the collected schizophrenias • the recovering • When Breath Becomes Air
• ISBN-10: 1-948226-29-4 / 1948226294
• ISBN-13: 978-1-948226-29-5 / 9781948226295