Gail Godwin

Gebundenes Buch

Getting to Know Death

A Meditation

Beschreibung

From New York Times-bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well lived-for readers of Oliver Sacks's Gratitude and Deborah Levy's Cost of Living.

Autor

Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including the novels Grief Cottage, Flora, Father Melancholy's Daughter, and Evensong, and Publishing, a memoir. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Woodstock, New York. www.gailgodwin.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781639734443
• ISBN-10: 1639734449
• Artikelnr.: 69038734

Rezensionen

Getting to Know Death could just as easily be called Getting to Know Life. As a meditation, it is both unsentimental and full of wonder. As a piece of writing, it stands beside the best of Godwin's fiction. Extraordinary.