Swing Low: A Life
Autor Miriam Toewsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780062070166
ISBN-10: 0062070169
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 0062070169
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
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One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat, walked out of town, and took his own life. A loving husband and father, a faithful member of the Mennonite church, and an immensely popular schoolteacher, Mel was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggling with bipolar disorder, he could no longer face the darkness that clouded his world. In this moving meditation on illness, family, faith, and love, Mel’s daughter, critically acclaimed novelist and reporter Miriam Toews, recounts her father’s life as he would have told it, in his own voice, right up to the day of his final walk.
Swing Low is a bold, gracefully written, and compassionate recounting of one man’s heartbreaking battle with depression.
Swing Low is a bold, gracefully written, and compassionate recounting of one man’s heartbreaking battle with depression.
Recenzii
“…Toews offers a touching memoir.” — Publishers Weekly
“The magic of Swing Low is that Toews makes a life that looked ordinary, even grindingly so, seem exalted.” — Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review
“The magic of Swing Low is that Toews makes a life that looked ordinary, even grindingly so, seem exalted.” — Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review
Notă biografică
Miriam Toews was born in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published five novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards in Canada, including the Governor General's Literary Award (for A Complicated Kindness) and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (for The Flying Troutmans). In 2010 she received the prestigious Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Irma Voth is Toews's most recent novel. She lives in Toronto.
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One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. But it is also a funny, winsome evocation of country life: growing up on farm, courting a wife, becoming a teacher, and rearing a happy, strong family in the midst of private torment.
One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. But it is also a funny, winsome evocation of country life: growing up on farm, courting a wife, becoming a teacher, and rearing a happy, strong family in the midst of private torment.