An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination - Hardcover

McCracken, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022408710X ISBN 13: 9780224087100

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2009

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"A grief memoir that fuses the immediacy readers crave from the genre with all the reflective, consoling depth of fiction." (The Observer)

Reseña del editor

'This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending.'

A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, Elizabeth McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. Then she fell in love, got married, and continued her life of writing, travelling, and teaching with her husband.Two years ago, she found herself in a remote part of France, waiting for the birth of her first child.

This book is about what happens next. In the ninth month of her pregnancy, a baby is lost.Just over a year later, a baby is born. In a profoundly moving display of humour, heart, and unfailing generosity, McCracken tenderly presents her story: a story of true love and unfathomable sadness, of courageous recovery and bittersweet moments, of steadfast memories and deep affection.Grief walks through these pages of this remarkable book, but so do happiness and hope.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 022408710X
• ISBN 13: 9780224087100
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224