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How I lost my mother : a story of life, care and dying / Leslie Swartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swartz, Leslie, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--South Africa--Biography.
- Jews.
- South Africa.
- Mother and child.
- Bereavement.
- Families.
- Swartz, Leslie, 1955-.
- Swartz, Leslie.
- Swartz, Leslie, 1955---Family.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 222 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Part I Finding
- 1 The Weeping Rose p. 3
- 2 Be sociable p. 15
- 3 Goodwill p. 27
- 4 The trouble with nerves p. 42
- 5 The archives p. 62
- 6 Nadine Gordimer, Anne Frank, Elsie Cohen and me p. 78
- Part II Losing
- 7 Shouting loud p. 95
- 8 Coming home p. 106
- 9 Avoiding surgery p. 121
- 10 Closing in p. 127
- 11 Scar tissue p. 140
- 12 Care p. 154
- 13 What ends? p. 171
- 14 Death admin p. 187
- 15 How Host my mother p. 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781776146949
- 1776146948
- 9781776146956
- 1776146956
- OCLC:
- 1201180245
- Publisher Number:
- 99987421674
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