A troubled guest : life and death stories / Nancy Mairs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mairs, Nancy, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mairs, Nancy, 1943-.

Mairs, Nancy.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A focused personal and ethical examination of life in the face of death, by one of our most acclaimed essayists "Nancy Mairs writes knowingly, even lovingly, about a subject most of us seek to avoid: death and its essential place in life. Her gripping meditations . . . both comfort and provoke with their spiritual strength and hard-won wisdom." --O Magazine "The ten essays in Nancy Mairs"s A Troubled Guest . . . radiate the truest kinds of insight about life, illness, death, and above all, love." --Elle Magazine "Through these evocative and often affecting essays, Mairs charts a territory that defines the corporeal and the spiritual, delineating as much about how we live as how we die." --Publishers Weekly "In clear, unaffected prose that quickly establishes --along with her candor--an intimacy with the reader, Mairs begins by explaining her feelings toward her own impending death. . . . Not self-help by any stretch, but it will be of interest to anyone recently touched by death." --Kirkus Reviews On Ordinary Time: "A conversion from good-girl spirituality to something much deeper and darker. . . . A remarkable accomplishment. . . . A relentlessly physical writer, as fiercely committed to her art as to her spiritual development." --Kathleen Norris, The New York Times Book Review On Carnal Acts: "Eloquent and remarkable. . . . I closed Carnal Acts feeling a hundred times more prepared for whatever perils and joys lie ahead of me." --Barbara Kingsolver Nancy Mairs is author of seven books, including Waist-High in the World (Beacon / 7087-4 / $14.00 pb), Ordinary Time (Beacon / 7057-2 / $18.00 pb), Voice Lessons (Beacon / 6007-0 / $11.00 pb), Carnal Acts (Beacon / 7085-8 / $11.00 pb), and Remembering the Bone House (Beacon / 7069-6 / $12.95 pb). She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, George.

Contents:

A necessary end

Death with father

I enter orphanhood

Aftermath

Regrets, revision, release

Lost children

The death of the other

Reflections on an anniversary

Nicey Nancy and the bad buffaloes

Ron her son, coda.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195).

ISBN:

0-8070-6242-1

OCLC:

70763636