The long goodbye
By: Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781594487989
Subjects: Grief; Loss (Psychology); Death; Mothers; Bereavement; Biography; American Poets
Other titles: Long good-bye
Description: In this eloquent, somber memoir about the death of her mother and grieving aftermath, poet and journalist O'Rourke (Halflife) ponders the eternal human question: how do we live with the knowledge that we will one day die?
Notes: "A memoir"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-306).