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In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Mourning

by Mary Jane Moffat

  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • 20.3 x 13.3 cm

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A breathtaking, indispensable collection featuring poetry, fiction, letters, and diaries of the world's greatest writers on the nature of grief. Death silences not only those it takes, but those it leaves behind: All too typically we can neither express our grief nor express sympathy for the bereaved. In this sensitive collection, loss finds a voice--or several voices--in the poetry, fiction, letters, and diaries of the world's great writers. Here are James Agee, recording the shock of his father's death; William Shakespeare, making poetry of Cleopatra's grief; the Biblical wisdom of The Book of Lamentations; the psychological acuity of Marcel Proust. Here are mourners from classical Rome to eleventh-century China, from the Paiute Indians to present-day Ireland. Arranged in sections that correspond to the stages of mourning, In the Midst of Winter is a volume whose breadth and resonance make it invaluable and utterly unique.

  • Title

    In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Mourning

  • Author

    Mary Jane Moffat

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

  • Published

    March 1992

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    20.3 x 13.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780679738275

  • ISBN-10

    0679738274

  • Eden Code

    7319646

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