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Crossing back : books, family, and memory without pain /

From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life's most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in clo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Facing Grief
  • 1. Living Tissue
  • 2. Imagining Disaster
  • 3. Mother's Day
  • Part II. Sustaining Things
  • 4. Second Chances
  • 5. College Teaching and Culture Wars or: What Really Happened at Duke
  • 6. Elephants: A Meditation on Mortality
  • Part III. Memory without Pain
  • 7. Food as Anthropological Lens
  • 8. Real Estate / Unreal Estate
  • The Stark but Familiar Allure of Empty Cities: An Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index