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📱 eBook en inglés MOTHERCARE

On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Soft Skull- 9781593767181

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Sinopsis de MOTHERCARE

"Masterfully-wrought . . . [A] stunning story of caregiving, with its questions of obligation and ethics and what it means to care for someone who, perhaps, didn’t care for you." —The Boston Globe

From the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman comes MOTHERCARE, an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden, drastically changed relationship to one’s mother, and of the time and labor spent navigating the American healthcare system.


When a mother’s unusual health condition, normal pressure hydrocephalus, renders her entirely dependent on you, your sisters, caregivers, and companions, the unthinkable becomes daily life. In MOTHERCARE, Tillman describes doing what seems impossible: handling her mother as if she were a child and coping with a longtime ambivalence toward her.

In Tillman’s celebrated style and as a “rich noticer of strange things” (Colm Tóibín), she describes, without flinching, the unexpected, heartbreaking, and anxious eleven years of caring for a sick parent.

MOTHERCARE is both a cautionary tale and sympathetic guidance for anyone who suddenly becomes a caregiver. This story may be helpful, informative, consoling, or upsetting, but it never fails to underscore how impossible it is to get the job done completely right.

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Editorial: Soft Skull

ISBN: 9781593767181

Idioma: Inglés

Fecha de lanzamiento: 02/08/2022


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Escrito por Lynne Tillman


LYNNE TILLMAN es crítica cultural y autora de novelas y relatos. Su obra incluye las novelasHaunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award; y American Genius, a Comedy. Entre sus obras de no ficción se cuentan The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965-1967, con fotografías de Stephen Shore, y Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeanette Watson and Books & Co. Sus últimos libros de relatos cortos son Someday This Will Be Funny y The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories, y su colección de ensayos más reciente es What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award en la categoría de Crítica. Es profesora y escritora residente del departamento de inglés de la Universidad de Albany e imparte clases en el Máster de Crítica de Arte y Escritura de la School of Visual Arts de Nueva York.
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