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In the late 1970s, Broyard started publishing brief personal essays in the Times, which many people considered among his best work. These were collected in Men, Women and Anti-Climaxes, published in 1980. Sandy told their children of their father's secret before his death. Broyard died in October 1990 of prostate cancer, which had been diagnosed in 1989

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Get weekly book recommendations . Broyard asks herself where she can go to engage in restoration. Broyard’s immersion and endurance are striking, and she weathers like a shingle.

Broyard asks herself where she can go to engage in restoration. She finds herself scattered, anxious, and overwhelmed, feeling no confidence in her ability to remove the sorrow of this death, not to mention those of her brother and close friend, which followed soon after. The pain gnaws, and writing that’s about death can’t escape the smell of mortality, but Broyard’s refusal to concede is also profoundly humane. Pub Date: Feb. 18th, 2005.

Автор: Broyard, Sandy Название: Standby ISBN: 1400042119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400042111 .

Описание: The & and insightful book& (New York Times) in which Bliss Broyard examines her celebrated father& life and illuminates questions of race, identity and the American dream. Автор: Broyard, Bliss Название: One drop ISBN: 0316163503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316163507 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг

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While the book is "about" Anatole Broyard, his family's history, and the cultural and racial history of south Louisiana, its main subject is the . As the kids grew up, Sandy Broyard urged Anatole to tell them about his family background.

While the book is "about" Anatole Broyard, his family's history, and the cultural and racial history of south Louisiana, its main subject is the emotional landscape around the color line, which Bliss Broyard never expected to explore. I really felt like I had to write it," she said in an interview before a reading in Rhode Island, "partly because I had a lot of questions after learning about my dad's identity. I felt they needed to know," she said by telephone from her home on Martha's Vineyard. As they got older and were in college, I brought it up again.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Book by Anatole Broyard, 1993. Reading, Literature, Words, Books.

This is a wife’s moving story of her husband’s battle with mortal illness–prostate cancer–of his death, of her descent into grief, and of her extraordinary journey back to life. And in this highly charged context it is as well the story of a marriage, from their first meeting on the Lexington Avenue subway through their twenty-nine years together. She was a student at the New School; he (later a book reviewer for The New York Times) was a teacher there.“The world of loss, of grief, of separation is a world of change,” Sandy Broyard writes, “but change that is different from growth,” and she shows us that change–so unlike all the others we have experienced. Through her training as a psychotherapist and her dancer’s knowledge of how the mind is expressed in the body (she was formerly a Juilliard dancer, a student of Martha Graham and Mary Wigman), Broyard begins to understand the ways in which grief persists. She saw how Anatole’s ill body, once so beautiful, distorted itself, and discovered how loss expressed itself in her own muscles. She tells how her experience of mourning Anatole was prefigured by the loss, thirty years before when she was twenty, of both her parents and a boyfriend. She describes the aftermath: “A friend gave me a tranquilizer with wine. I passed out and a few hours later woke up, the dark feeling gone. That lesson went straight to my heart and brain. And for the next fifteen years I used that combination, not knowing that sedating myself only served to cement the torment to my bones.”But with the second series of losses in midlife–her brother, a close friend, and then her husband–there were no magic potions to dilute or expunge the grief. Now the great sadness had to be translated into words. Realizing she could be truly alive only if she was alive to her grief, she started to write for herself, capturing the journey of her years as wife, mother of her son and daughter, dancer and writer. And she tells about the suddenness of her husband’s cancer, shortly after their move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the swift progression of his illness; he died fourteen months later.She tells how she began to reshape her life–moving to Martha’s Vineyard, traveling to the house in Cambridge and back– “commuting” between her old world with Anatole and her new world on the island, and settling into a whole new life on her own, open with possibilities.

ISBN: 1400042119
ISBN13: 978-1400042111
Category: Self-Help
Subcategory: Death & Grief
Author: Sandy Broyard
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf; First Edition edition (February 15, 2005)
Pages: 224 pages
ePUB size: 1699 kb
FB2 size: 1512 kb
Rating: 4.9
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