Getting to Know Death A Meditation by Gail Godwin (Hardback Book)

Name: Getting to Know Death A Meditation by Gail Godwin (Hardback Book)
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Gail Godwin

From New York Timesbestselling, threetime National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well livedfor readers of Oliver Sackss Gratitude and Deborah Levys Cost of Living. I cant see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better. This is my life, but I may not get to do what I want in it. Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her neck while watering the dogwood tree in her garden at age eightyfive, a lifetime of writing and publishing behind her and a halffinished novel in tow, Bergmans idea quickly unfurled in front of her, forcing her to confront a creative life interrupted. In Getting to Know Death, Godwin shares what spoke to her while in a desperate place. Remembering those she has loved and survived, including a brother and father lost to suicide, and finding meaning in the encounters she has with other patients as she heals, she takes stock of a life toward the end of its long graceful arc, finding her path through the words she has written and the people she has loved. At once beautiful, biting, precise, poetic, and propulsive, Getting to Know Death is her own reckoning with the meaning of a life, the forms of passion that guide it, and how the stories we hold can shape our memories and preserve our selves as we write our own endings | Gail Godwin Getting to Know Death : A Meditation Hardback Book