Wrongful Death: A Memoir

Wrongful Death: A Memoir

by SGilbert (Author)

Synopsis

In February 1991, Elliot Gilbert, a 60-year-old professor of English, went into hospital for a routine prostate operation. Hours later, he was pronounced dead in the recovery ward. In this book, Gilbert's widow describes the shock and grief into which she and her children were plunged as they struggled to come to terms with his death. Her major focus is on the process of discovery through which they began to unravel the mystery of her husband's sudden death.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 24 Aug 1995

ISBN 10: 0393037215
ISBN 13: 9780393037210

Media Reviews
An enduring contribution to the literature of grief.
Starred Review. The memoir recounts the events preceding Elliot's death and leading up to and beyond the legal resolution. But its power lies in the writers anger and her grief, and in her all-consuming determination: her book is a moving and extended meditation on moral obsession.
Author Bio
Sandra M. Gilbert has published numerous volumes of criticism as well as collections of poetry and a memoir. She is coeditor (with Susan Gubar) of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women and a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. A Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of California, Davis, she lives in Berkeley, California.