My Mother My Father

Author : Susan Wyndham
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743431902
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother, My Father written by Susan Wyndham and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of a parent is an experience that we all face without any training - relating to a parent through old age and illness; going through the actual death in different circumstances and whether we can help parents to have a good death; the emotional aftermath - shock, grief, relief, the effect on families; funerals, wills and other rituals; clearing out the house and keeping memories alive; recovery and carrying on with life; the longer-term changes in us and our relationship with our parents. Edited by Sydney Morning Herald literary editor, journalist and writer Susan Wyndham, My Mother, My Fatheris a collection of stories from 14 remarkable Australian writers, sharing what it is to feel loss, and all the experiences and memories that create the image of our parents. Contributors include Helen Garner, David Marr, Tom Keneally, Gerard Windsor, Susan Duncan and Caroline Baum. These stories are intimate, honest, moving, sometimes funny, never sentimental, and always well written.

Author : Yehudis Samet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422614549
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father My Mother and Me written by Yehudis Samet and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Wyndham
Publisher : Picador Australia
ISBN 13 : 1741981565
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life In His Hands written by Susan Wyndham and published by Picador Australia. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of a neurosurgeon and a pianist In 2001 the brilliant young concert pianist Aaron McMillan was diagnosed with a rare type of brain tumour and given six weeks to live. He was just 24 years old. He underwent 12 hours of emergency surgery; days later he was back at the piano, preparing to perform. Years later, he was still performing. His doctor was Charlie Teo, one of Australia's most celebrated and controversial neurosurgeons. Charlie's specialty is inoperable brain tumours and his radical techniques have earned him praise around the world. But in his own country he is regarded by some as reckless and even dangerous. Aaron McMillan presented Charlie with his most challenging case yet. In return, Charlie Teo gave Aaron hope. Life In His Hands is the remarkable true story of a medical maverick and an artist who refused to be daunted by death. It is a book full of heartache and joy and scientific marvels, written by a journalist who found that with some stories, staying on the sidelines is the hardest thing to do.

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101464380
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me written by Kate Bernheimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. Neil Gaiman, “Orange” Aimee Bender, “The Color Master” Joyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover” Michael Cunningham, “The Wild Swans” These and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy tales—the ultimate literary costume party. Spinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” and “The Little Match Girl” to Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” and “Cinderella” to the Brothers Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” and “Rumpelstiltskin” to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico. Fairy tales are our oldest literary tradition, and yet they chart the imaginative frontiers of the twenty-first century as powerfully as they evoke our earliest encounters with literature. This exhilarating collection restores their place in the literary canon.

Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880600
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misgivings written by C. K. Williams and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense, refractory memoir by a major poet Misgivings is C. K. Williams's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, and inner conflict. Like Kafka's self-revealing Letter to His Father, Misgivings is full of doubt, both philosophical and personal, but as a work of art it is sure and true. Williams's father was an "ordinary businessman"--angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could read the Greek myths aloud to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. His mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the "conspiracy that made me who I am." His account of their life together and their deaths--his father's with suicidal despair, and his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives. And as literary form it is novel, a series of brilliant short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection. Few contemporary writers have understood their origins so acutely, or so eloquently.

Author : C. B. Christiansen
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother's House, My Father's House written by C. B. Christiansen and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHILDREN'S BOOKS/AGES 4-8

Author : Trudy Griffin-Pierce
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826316349
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth is My Mother, Sky is My Father written by Trudy Griffin-Pierce and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.

Author : Dialta Alliata-Lensi Orlandi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781491039922
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother, My Father and His Wife Hortense written by Dialta Alliata-Lensi Orlandi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fierce and poignant book, the author, drawing on sources that include her grandmother's richly erotic diaries, unveils intimate details of the Acton dynasty in Florence, the illicit love affair of Arthur and Elsie, and the controversial legal aftermath that continues to this day. A true family saga played out against the backdrop of Florence's celebrated Villa La Pietra. The struggle over the billion dollar estate of one of the 20th century's most notable aesthetes, Harold Acton, pitted New York University, against first Liana Beacci, Acton's illegitimate half-sister, and since her death in 2000 her daughter, Princess Dialta Alliata di Montereale, who lives in Honolulu. It began its progress through the Italian legal system soon after Acton's death in 1994 with more downs than ups for the family. But a recent reworking of Italian inheritance laws, to make them internally coherent and to bring them into accord with European protocols, promises a dramatic conclusion - and sooner rather than later. It was always a story in which reality was more colourful than fiction. You will find it in My Mother, My Father and His Wife Hortense: The True Story of the Villa La Pietra (Amazon), a vivid book by Dialta, published under her family name, Dialta Lensi Orlandi, who is now Princess Dialta di Montereale. In fifty chapters, against the historical and social backdrop of art, glamour, war, and international intrigue, the lives of the Beaccis and the Actons are woven together through the eyes of a third-generation family member, Dialta Lensi Orlandi, granddaughter of Arthur Acton and daughter of Liana Beacci. The tale encompasses the fate of Acton's estate, an appalling betrayal, and the continuing fight to restore justice and dignity to Acton's legacy and the Beacci family name. Arthur Acton, Dialta's grandfather, was an art dealer, married to Hortense Mitchell, a Chicago heiress, but who came to dislike both art and her husband's home in Florence. Dialta's mother was born to Arthur Acton's lifelong mistress, Ersilia. Her half-brother, Harold Acton, the model for Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, and who had been host at La Pietra to Princess Diana and Pablo Picasso, was acquainted with his relations and tried to thwart their inheritance. In 2003 the court of Florence allowed the bodies of Liana and Arthur to be dug up for DNA tests. These established with "the highest degree of probability" that Liana was Arthur Acton's daughter--and a surprise ending.

Author : P.J. Fisk
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982261404
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If God Is My Father, Who Is My Mother? written by P.J. Fisk and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God is My Father, Who is My Mother? is a spiritual journey out of the depths of conservative patriarchy to the enlightenment of a Mother/Father God. Paula tells a story of family and church dysfunction without condemnation or blame. Her story is about the education and guidance of her daughters and female students at both the high school and college levels, It was during these tenures that Paula began to recognize the conditioning of females by a patriarchal society. She dedicated herself first to healing, and then to discovery and enlightenment. Journey with her through this memoir of revelations, questions, and proposed answers.

Author : Marcel Pagnol
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330321907
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father's Glory ; And, My Mother's Castle written by Marcel Pagnol and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With warmth, lucidity and good humour, Pagnol, a boy from the city, recounts the glorious summer days he spent exploring the sun-baked Provençal countryside. He vividly captures the atmosphere of a childhood filled with the simple pleasures: a meal, a joke, an outing shared with his close-knit and loving family. These heart-warming stories remind us of how children can invest the smallest event or statement with incredible significance, how mysterious the workings of the adult world can seem to them and how painful the learning process can often prove. However, Pagnol’s writing is filled with enormous optimism and delight. And his triumph in these classic memoirs is to have created that rare thing, a work suffused with joy. ‘Pagnol’s place in the history of French culture is secure. The Prousts and Sartres may be admired, but Pagnol is loved’ Times Literary Supplement