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The loneliest places : loss, grief, and the long journey home / Rachel Dickinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickinson, Rachel, author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Rachel.
- Mothers of suicide victims--New York (State).
- Mothers of suicide victims.
- Parental grief--New York (State).
- Parental grief.
- Grief in women--New York (State).
- Grief in women.
- Suicide victims--Family relationships--New York (State).
- Suicide victims.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Three Hills, 2022.
- Summary:
- These essays began as a chronicle of Rachel Dickinson's life after her son's suicide. The pieces became much more. Dickinson writes the unimaginable and terrifying facts of heartbreaking loss. In 'The Loneliest Places' she tells stories from her months on the run, fleeing her grief and herself, as she escapes to Iceland and the Falkland Islands - as far as possible from the memories of her dead son, Jack. She frankly relates the paralysing emotion that sometimes left her trapped in her home, confined to a single chair, helplessly isolated.
- Contents:
- These Fragments I Have Shored against My Ruins
- Beginning
- Autumn, Again
- One Night
- Thoughts You Have While at Your Son's Funeral
- Withdrawn
- Running Away
- Adirondack Anniversary
- Clara and Jack Sing a Duet
- Seeking Permission from Donald Hall
- Thoughts
- Guns in the Attic
- The People Who Stayed
- Train Robbers and Pinkertons
- Hope is a Strange Invention
- Vertigo
- Thrown for a Loop
- Why I Stay
- The Ways in Which I Fall
- Rage
- Let Me Be Frank
- Angry at a Dead Son
- The Gentle Arts
- Mourning and Melancholy, Rejected
- Travel
- Pursuit of Aloneness
- December Snow
- Merry Effing Christmas
- Learning to Travel
- Give Up the Ghost
- Birding on Bleaker Island
- Speculation
- Fictional World
- What Would I take if My House Was on Fire?
- The Time Tim Went to Cuba
- Dreamworld
- Going to the Spiritualist Camp
- Searching
- The Dude Ranch
- Visitation
- Searching for Home in Italy
- The Pull of Water
- Change
- Minefields
- Soft Edges
- Called Back
- Lonely
- Jane at the End
- The Other Jack Gallagher
- Staying in a Ghost Town
- Anticipation
- Beside the Volcano
- Comeuppance
- Feeling Isolated
- Tim Writes Me a Letter
- Selfishness
- The Present
- The Corncrake.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dickinson, Rachel The Loneliest Places
- ISBN:
- 9781501766398
- OCLC:
- 1317840363
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