by SueMiller (Author)
In the spring of 1986, Sue Miller found herself more and more deeply involved in caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. "The Story of My Father" is a profound, deeply moving account of her father's final days and her own response to it. With care, restraint and consummate skill, Miller writes of her struggles to be fully with her father in his illness while confronting her own terror of abandonment, and eventually the long, hard work of grieving for him. And through this candid, painful record, she offers a rigorous, compassionate inventory of two lives, a powerful meditation on the variable nature of memory and the difficulty of weaving a truthful narrative from the threads of a dissolving life. This is a truly remarkable book from one of America's best loved authors.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03 May 2004
ISBN 10: 0747565228
ISBN 13: 9780747565222
Book Overview: Huge marketing and publicity campaign For all fans of Blake Morrison's And When Did You Last See Your Father? By the author of The World Below and While I was Gone