Description
In this mournful, ruefully funny, and deeply loving work, Grace Paley offers a haunting elegy for the life she is leaving behind. With touching fidelity, she captures what it means to grow old and sick, to feel the ache of vanished friends, and to keep asking philosophical questions even as time narrows. The book moves through memory and observation with Paley’s distinctive warmth and precision, turning private grief into a shared meditation on loyalty, loss, and the stubborn beauty of continuing. Part personal reckoning and part lyrical reflection, it honors the past without surrendering to it.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Mar 31, 2009
96 pages
ISBN: 9780374531713
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First Published
2008
Language
eng
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