The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying / Nina Riggs.
Publisher: Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2017Description: 310 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9781925498493 (paperback)Subject(s): Riggs, Nina | Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography | Women poets, American -- Biography | Mothers -- United States -- Biography | Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography | Death -- Psychological aspectsSummary: In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying is Nina's intimate, unflinching account of `living with death in the room'. She tells her story in a series of absurd, poignant and often hilarious vignettes drawn from a life that has `no real future or arc left to it, yet still goes on as if it does'. This unforgettable memoir leads the reader into the innermost chambers of the writer's life: into the mind and heart, the work and home and family, of a young woman alternately seeking to make peace with and raging against the reality of her approaching death.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying is Nina's intimate, unflinching account of `living with death in the room'. She tells her story in a series of absurd, poignant and often hilarious vignettes drawn from a life that has `no real future or arc left to it, yet still goes on as if it does'. This unforgettable memoir leads the reader into the innermost chambers of the writer's life: into the mind and heart, the work and home and family, of a young woman alternately seeking to make peace with and raging against the reality of her approaching death.
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