Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake ... Andrea Gillies
Andrea Gillies' brilliantly cogent investigations into the way Alzheimer's works are interwoven with her mother-in-law's unravelling grasp on reality.
Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake ...
Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake ...
Zusammenfassung
Andrea Gillies' brilliantly cogent investigations into the way Alzheimer's works are interwoven with her mother-in-law's unravelling grasp on reality.
Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake ... Zusammenfassung
Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake ... Bewertungen
It's a fantastic book - down to earth and darkly comic in places. The judges found it compelling.
A wonderful book honest, upsetting, tender, sometimes angry, often funny which takes us on a journey into dementia and explores what it means to be human.
This is not another guide to be added to the depressing pile by the bedside for those who are confronting the decline of a relative. It is as much an exploration of memory, its loss and the subsequent erosion of personality, as a chronicle of the destructive chaos that the onset of Alzheimer's unleashes on the extended family... Somehow, despite the territory, Gillies manages to steer the book away from misery lit and beneath the profoundly bleak narrative runs a stream of grim humour. Most powerful, however, is Nancy's own voice, carefully recorded by Gillies in nightly diary entries, a voice that is at times cantankerous, bewildered and defiant. Reading these monologues, we get very close to understanding what it feels like to experience this illness... What makes this book so unexpected is the honesty with which Gillies records the catastrophic consequences of this well-intentioned act. * The Guardian *
Terrific, terrifying, absolutely powerful in every choice of word, every sentence... completely unflinching
A wonderful book honest, upsetting, tender, sometimes angry, often funny which takes us on a journey into dementia and explores what it means to be human.
This is not another guide to be added to the depressing pile by the bedside for those who are confronting the decline of a relative. It is as much an exploration of memory, its loss and the subsequent erosion of personality, as a chronicle of the destructive chaos that the onset of Alzheimer's unleashes on the extended family... Somehow, despite the territory, Gillies manages to steer the book away from misery lit and beneath the profoundly bleak narrative runs a stream of grim humour. Most powerful, however, is Nancy's own voice, carefully recorded by Gillies in nightly diary entries, a voice that is at times cantankerous, bewildered and defiant. Reading these monologues, we get very close to understanding what it feels like to experience this illness... What makes this book so unexpected is the honesty with which Gillies records the catastrophic consequences of this well-intentioned act. * The Guardian *
Terrific, terrifying, absolutely powerful in every choice of word, every sentence... completely unflinching
Über Andrea Gillies
Andrea Gillies has had a diverse career, encompassing writing, publicity work, the editorship of the Good Beer Guide, travel and reference book editing, and writing a drinks column for Scotland on Sunday newspaper. She's spent most of the last 18 years raising children, and latterly, living in a mansion on a remote peninsula in northern Scotland.
Zusätzliche Informationen
GOR002273012
9781906021993
1906021996
Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake ... Andrea Gillies
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Short Books Ltd
20100520
320
Winner of Orwell Prize 2010 Winner of Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2009
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