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- Condizione
- ISBN
- 9781101906699
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
ISBN-10
1101906693
ISBN-13
9781101906699
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234501958
Product Key Features
Book Title
Disaster Falls : a Family Story
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-016306
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" Disaster Falls is a meditation on family tragedy, facing up to both the thing itself and its consequences, in language whose restraint paradoxically allows the reader access to great depths of emotion. An immensely powerful book." -- SALMAN RUSHDIE "I resisted Disaster Falls --afraid to enter its world of very nearly unendurable pain--but once I began reading I was pinned to the spot. This is a spare, lucid, wholly unsentimental, tender, devastating and devastatingly beautiful book." -- DANI SHAPIRO , author of Slow Motion and Devotion "Out of the unimaginable loss of a child comes this stunning memoir. Disaster Falls leaps beyond death, avoiding the maudlin by turning toward connection. Stephane Gerson meditates on how to raise children to be confident, life-living risk takers in spite of danger, and shares a generous portrait of a marriage in which husband and wife give each other space in grief and love. He also explores the legacy of traumatic experience in families, societies, and literature. An astonishing book." -- CHRISTA PARRAVANI , author of Her: A Memoir , " Disaster Falls is a meditation on family tragedy, facing up to both the thing itself and its consequences, in language whose restraint paradoxically allows the reader access to great depths of emotion. An immensely powerful book." -- SALMAN RUSHDIE "I resisted Disaster Falls --afraid to enter its world of very nearly unendurable pain--but once I began reading I was pinned to the spot. This is a spare, lucid, wholly unsentimental, tender, devastating and devastatingly beautiful book." -- DANI SHAPIRO , author of Slow Motion and Devotion
Dewey Decimal
155.937092
Synopsis
A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stephane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That night, as darkness fell, Stephane huddled in a tent with his wife, Alison, and their older son, Julian, trying to understand what seemed inconceivable. "It's just the three of us now," Alison said over the sounds of a light rain and, nearby, the rushing river. "We cannot do it alone. We have to stick together." Disaster Falls chronicles the aftermath of that day and their shared determination to stay true to Alison's resolution. At the heart of the book is an unflinching portrait of a marriage tested. Husband and wife grieve in radically different ways that threaten to isolate each of them in their post-Owen worlds. ("He feels so far," Stephane says when Alison shows him a selfie Owen had taken. "He feels so close," she says.) With beautiful specificity, Stephane shows how they resist that isolation and reconfigure their marriage from within. As Stephane navigates his grief, the memoir expands to explore how society reacts to the death of a child. He depicts the "good death" of his father, which reveals an altogther different perspective on mortality. He excavates the history of the Green River-rife with hazards not mentioned in the rafting company's brochures. He explores how stories can both memorialize and obscure a person's life-and how they can rescue us. Disaster Falls is a powerful account of a life cleaved in two-raw, truthful, and unexpectedly consoling., A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, St phane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That night, as darkness fell, St phane huddled in a tent with his wife, Alison, and their older son, Julian, trying to understand what seemed inconceivable. "It's just the three of us now," Alison said over the sounds of a light rain and, nearby, the rushing river. "We cannot do it alone. We have to stick together." Disaster Falls chronicles the aftermath of that day and their shared determination to stay true to Alison's resolution. At the heart of the book is an unflinching portrait of a marriage tested. Husband and wife grieve in radically different ways that threaten to isolate each of them in their post-Owen worlds. ("He feels so far," St phane says when Alison shows him a selfie Owen had taken. "He feels so close," she says.) With beautiful specificity, St phane shows how they resist that isolation and reconfigure their marriage from within. As St phane navigates his grief, the memoir expands to explore how society reacts to the death of a child. He depicts the "good death" of his father, which reveals an altogther different perspective on mortality. He excavates the history of the Green River--rife with hazards not mentioned in the rafting company's brochures. He explores how stories can both memorialize and obscure a person's life--and how they can rescue us. Disaster Falls is a powerful account of a life cleaved in two--raw, truthful, and unexpectedly consoling.
LC Classification Number
BF575.G7
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