Death in Slow Motion A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's

Name: Death in Slow Motion A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's
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ISBN: 9780060937973

ISBN-10: 0060937971

ISBN-13: 9780060937973

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eleanor Cooney

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When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair. But the coping mechanism that finally serves this eloquent writer best is writing, the ability to bring to vivid life the memories her mother is losing. As her mother gropes in the gathering darkness for a grip on the world she once loved, succeeding only in conjuring sad fantasies of places and times with her late husband,…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Eleanor Cooney has published four novels. She lives in Mendocino, California.