Gail Godwin
1. Getting to Know Death
Getting to Know Death A Meditation
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Family Sharing
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Gesprochen von
Rosemary BensonSpieldauer
3 Stunden und 40 Minuten
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
11.06.2024
Hörtyp
Lesung
Fassung
ungekürzt
Medium
MP3
Anzahl Dateien
42
Verlag
Bloomsbury AcademicSprache
Englisch
EAN
9781639734474
Bloomsbury presents Getting to Know Death by Gail Godwin, read by Rosemary Benson."Getting to Know Death could just as easily be called Getting to Know Life. As a meditation, it is both unsentimental and full of wonder. As a piece of writing, it stands beside the best of Godwin's fiction. Extraordinary." —Ann PatchettFrom New York Times-bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well lived—for readers of Oliver Sacks's Gratitude and Deborah Levy's Cost of Living.I can't see a way out of this.Things will not necessarily get better.This is my life, but I may not get to do what I want in it.Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her neck while watering the dogwood tree in her garden at age eighty-five, a lifetime of writing and publishing behind her and a half-finished novel in tow, Bergman's idea quickly unfurled in front of her, forcing her to confront a creative life interrupted. In Getting to Know Death, Godwin shares what spoke to her while in a desperate place. Remembering those she has loved and survived, including a brother and father lost to suicide, and finding meaning in the encounters she has with other patients as she heals, she takes stock of a life toward the end of its long graceful arc, finding her path through the words she has written and the people she has loved.At once beautiful, biting, precise, poetic, and propulsive, Getting to Know Death is her own reckoning with the meaning of a life, the forms of passion that guide it, and how the stories we hold can shape our memories and preserve our selves as we write our own endings.
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