A Scattering and Anniversary Paperback / softback
by Christopher Reid
Paperback / softback
Description
This edition brings together A Scattering and Anniversary into a single book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five.
A Scattering was first published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning the Costa Book of the Year Award.
This moving and fiercely self-reflective collection is divided into four poetic sequences.
The first was written during a holiday a few months before Gane's death with the knowledge that the end was approaching; the second recalls her last courageous weeks, spent in a hospice in London; the third continues the exploration of bereavement from a variety of perspectives; and the fourth addresses her directly, celebrating her life, personality and achievements. Pairing A Scattering for the first time with Anniversary, which was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Gane's death, this volume brings Reid into dialogue, again, with the wife he loved.
A moving exploration of the stages of grief and how the 'weighty emptinesses' that remain after bereavement change us, A Scattering andAnniversary show us what it means to love, lose and - forever changed - continue on.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:01/08/2019
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- ISBN:9780571354535
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:01/08/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571354535
