Companion to an untold story / Marcia Aldrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldrich, Marcia.

Series:

Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship.

Suicide--Case studies.

Suicide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Marcia Aldrich's friend took his own life at the age of forty-six, they had known each other many years. As part of his preparations for death, he gave her many of his possessions, concealing his purposes in doing so, and when he committed his long-contemplated act, he was alone in a bare apartment. In Companion to an Untold Story , Aldrich struggles with her own failure to act on her suspicions about her friend's intentions. She pieces together the rough outline of his plan to die and the details of its execution. Yet she acknowledges that she cannot provide a complete narrative of why h

Contents:

Cover; COMPANION TO AN Untold Story; Age at death; Aldrich, Marcia; Alpha; Ambition; Answering machine; Apartment; Arborvitae; Augury; August 21, 1995; Auto; Awake; Banal suicide; Barbara; Bartleby; Bathroom (1); Bathroom (2); Bed; Bed of metamorphosis; Beginning; Berkeley; Better world; Beyond Insight; Binoculars; Birthday; Breathless; Buji; Bullet; Buteo regalis; Cassanego; Cause of death; Certificate of death; Chain, chain, chain; Circle; Clare and David; Clementine; Collector's "I"; Colma; Contact person; Cryptic; Data; Death of a Salesman; Death wish; Deference; Diabetes

Disposition of the bodyDisposition of the weapon; Distance learning; Domestic past; Dream; Eagle; Egg coddler; Endings; English 1B; Epictetus; Esse est percipi; Eulogy; Failure; Fast car; Figurines (1); Figurines (2); Finality; Fleck; Gale; Garage sale; Gas; Gender gap; Gifts; The Glory Hole; Golden Gate; Gun; Halloween; Harbor; Heart; Heron, doe, and fawns; Higher education; Hole; Home teaching (1); Home teaching (2); Impasse; Informed consumer; Inheritance; In remembrance; Intimates; Invisible ink; Kidney failure; The knocking at the gate in Macbeth; Lady Macbeth; Larry; Last visit

Last words to meLast words to Richard; Literary criticism; Macbeth; Manhattan (list of lists of reasons that life is worth living); Marital status; Men on women: cinema verité; Mentor; Method; Money; More forest; Mother's Day; Mouse; Neuropathy, diabetic; Note; Now he tells us; Oban; Onset; Other women who passed through that I know of; Path (1); Path (2); Path (3); Path (4); Pentobarbital; Philosopher; Piano four hands; Plan; Police; Police report; Prell, Martin; Prell, Michael; Prell, Ruth Sosin; Project; Questions; Reassembly; Reception; Red-tailed hawk; Richard; Rigor mortis; River house

RoleRoses; Salesman; ""Secretary of Death"; Self-accusation; Self-annihilation; Self-pity; Sisyphus; 1635 San Andres Street; Spanish main; Spectacular suicide; Spin the bottle; Spoon altar; Spoons, commemorative; Stamp collection; Steinway Model K; Story; Substitute; Substitute teacher; Suicide; "Suicide"; Suicide Intent Scale; Suicide note; Synecdoche; A tale told by his rabbi, full of sound and fury, etc; Telescope; Test; Thanksgiving; Timeline; Time travel; Toast; Tools not elsewhere inventoried and not forgotten; Truth; Unclaimed Baggage Center

The underlying, unifying principle of a lifeVise; Voice of authority; Why; World's Fair; X-ray; Years, under the influence of the additive property; Yes, this is my time; Young manhood; Z, omega, taw; "Zen Suicide"; AUTHOR'S NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613925336

9781283612883

1283612887

9780820344706

0820344702

OCLC:

812066408