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A troubled guest : life and death stories / Nancy Mairs.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.A386 Z477 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mairs, Nancy, 1943-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mairs, Nancy, 1943-2016.
- Mairs, Nancy.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Death.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 195 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Few have succeeded so well in illuminating the paradox of living with the reality of death as essayist Nancy Mairs in this unflinching look at assisted suicide, the death penalty, and other life-and-death decisions.
- Contents:
- A necessary end
- Death with father
- I enter orphanhood
- Aftermath
- Regret, revision, release
- Lost children
- The death of the other
- Reflections on an anniversary
- Nicey Nancy and the bad buffaloes
- Ron her son : coda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0807062480
- OCLC:
- 46343493
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