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Learning how to breathe / Linda Neil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neil, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--Biography.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- St. Lucia, Queensland : UQP, 2009.
- Summary:
- 'Two things happen today. My mother falls and I foresee my own death. These two things may or may not be connected ... I know as I watch her fall that, contrary to the habit of a lifetime, I will not walk away.' Linda Neil is a successful musician and performer who, in her thirties, moves back home to live with and care for her mother, Joan. She doesn't realise that her mother's illness will rapidly progress into Parkinson's disease and that this time with her will change Linda's life. Connected by a deep love of music, Linda and her mother find a way to get to know one another again and make sense of what is happening to them. Learning how to Breathe highlights the universality of dealing with ageing and ailing parents and how the family relationships we may have taken for granted can be renewed. In Learning how to Breathe, Linda Neil uses music as a metaphor to share her heartbreaking, but uplifting, story of finally coming to know her mother - and herself.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Author Biography
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Book One: THE POLITICS OF SADNESS
- RETURN
- THE LONELIEST GOATHERD
- ONE FINE DAY
- WE'LL MEET AGAIN
- THE RUSTLE OF SPRING
- THE POLITICS OF SADNESS
- DIVINE DISCOMBOBULATION
- IN A MOONLIGHT GARDEN
- VOICE IS THE MUSCLE OF THE SOUL
- ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
- Book Two: LEARNING HOW TO BREATHE
- OUR FATHER WHOSE ART WAS HEAVEN
- IT'S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN
- SEPTEMBER SONGS
- THE KEYS OF HEAVEN
- FIDDLING IN THE UNDERWORLD
- THE ASYLUM SEEKERS
- AIN'T WE GOT FUN
- GALOP INFERNAL
- LIEBESTRAUM
- MY MOTHER'S MAD OPHELIA
- LEARNING HOW TO BREATHE
- Book Three: HOUSE OF LOVE
- INTERMEZZO
- LOVE LETTERS TO LORD BYRON
- INTERLUDE
- PANIS ANGELICUS
- A MAVERICK IN THE LOUNGE ROOM
- EXULTATE JUBILATE
- PARKINSON'S SUCKS!
- HOUSE OF LOVE
- THE VIEW FROM HERE
- A SHORT HISTORY OF MUSIC
- SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE
- EPILOGUE: JOY TO THE WORLD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 27, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-7022-6143-2
- OCLC:
- 1002848028
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