City of One A Memoir

Name: City of One A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780595414987

ISBN-10: 0595414982

ISBN-13: 9780595414987

Edition: 2006

Authors: Francine Cournos

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City of Oneis a poignant and beautifully written memoir of childhood loss and its enduring meaning. Francine Cournos was three years old when her father died, and by the time she was eleven, her mother was dead of breast cancer. I had been hurled over a cliff, she writes. The irreversibility of what had happened crashed down on me; a nauseating wave of fear and a flood of tears followed. I didnt know who I was without my mother. What would fill the vast space left by the disappearance of this all-consuming relationship? How would I spend my time? What would I become? In answering these questions, Dr. Cournos offers a sharply perceptive portrait of an injured childs inner life, and the…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English