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The Still Point of the Turning World

A Memoir
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
272 Seiten
Englisch
Penguin USerschienen am25.02.2014
"A brilliant study of the wages of mortal love." -The New York Times Book ReviewWhat does it mean to be a success? To be a good parent? To live a meaningful life? Emily Rapp thought she knew the answers when she was pregnant with her first child. But everything changed when nine-month-old Ronan was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal degenerative disorder. He was not expected to live beyond the age of three. Rapp and her husband were forced to re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about parenting and to learn to parent without a future.Even before the book's publication, Rapp set the Internet ablaze with her New York Times op-ed piece about parenting a terminally ill child. An immediate bestseller, The Still Point of the Turning World is Rapp's memorial to her lost son and an inspiring and exquisitely moving reminder to love and live in the moment.mehr
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Klappentext"A brilliant study of the wages of mortal love." -The New York Times Book ReviewWhat does it mean to be a success? To be a good parent? To live a meaningful life? Emily Rapp thought she knew the answers when she was pregnant with her first child. But everything changed when nine-month-old Ronan was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal degenerative disorder. He was not expected to live beyond the age of three. Rapp and her husband were forced to re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about parenting and to learn to parent without a future.Even before the book's publication, Rapp set the Internet ablaze with her New York Times op-ed piece about parenting a terminally ill child. An immediate bestseller, The Still Point of the Turning World is Rapp's memorial to her lost son and an inspiring and exquisitely moving reminder to love and live in the moment.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-312510-5
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Erscheinungsdatum25.02.2014
Seiten272 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht198 g
Artikel-Nr.29317831
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GenreGeschichte/Politik
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Kritik
"A brilliant study of the wages of mortal love."
-Sarah Manguso, New York Times Book Review

"The Still Point of the Turning World is about the smallest things and the biggest things, the ugliest things and the most beautiful things, the darkest things and the brightest things, but most of all it's about one very important thing: the way a woman loves a boy who will soon die. Emily Rapp didn't want to tell us this story. She had to. That necessity is evident in every word of this intelligent, ferocious, grace-filled, gritty, astonishing starlight of a book."
-Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

"Rapp writes with . . .radiant honesty and intelligence, pulling you close, making you care. She searches for solace in literature, religion and friends, joining forces with other "dragon mothers" and finding the strength to protect and honor Ronan while preparing to let him go. . . . Rapp fights to redefine the meaning of parenting-and of life itself. Living in the moment is sornething we're told to aim for; she does it, finding profound joy in the pure expression of love."
-Helen Rogan, People (4 star review)

"It's hard to find words that do justice to Emily Rapp's The Still Point of the Turning World. It's one of those rare books that you want to press into people's hands and simply say, 'You must read this. You will thank me.' At every turn, Rapp avoids the maudlin and the expected to get at very deep truths, sometimes painful and sometimes liberating and sometimes both. She looks for wisdom and comfort to a wide range of sources ranging from C.S. Lewis to Marilynne Robinson to Buddhist teaching. And she looks to her son. This is one family's story of living while facing death, but also an astonishingly generous work about recognizing the pain and grace that exist all around us."
-Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club

"Rapp has an emotional accessibility reminiscent of Wild author Cheryl Strayed; her unique experiences have a touch of the universal. She comes across as open, midthought. In her book, she wrestles with the ideas of luck and sentimentality and life and love and often circles back, unresolved. Despite being a former divinity student, she bypasses religion for literature, seeking meaning in poetry, myth and, especially, Frankenstein and its author, Mary Shelley... Her kind of parent? The dragon mother: powerful, sometimes terrifying, full of fire and magic."
-Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, "Faces to Watch in 2013"

"A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Rapp combines an essayist's willingness to lay herself bare on the page, a theologian's search to plumb the mysteries of life and a poet's precision. The result is stunning . . . Although her subject is extremely sad, her book isn't depressing, because depression is a state of stasis, and Rapp actively investigates her grief, making something meaningful out of it."
-Malena Waltrous, San Francisco Chronicle

"A beautiful, searing exploration of the landscape of grief and a profound meditation on the meaning of life."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Ronan's 'death sentence' was for Rapp and her husband, Rick, living in Santa Fe, a time of grief, reckoning, and learning how to live, and her elegant, restrained work flows with reflections and excerpts from writers and poets like Mary Shelley, Pablo Neruda, and Sylvia Plath, as well as supporters who helped her during the difficult unraveling of her son's condition. Writing about Ronan allowed her to claim the sorrow and truly look at her son the way he was... Unflinching and unsentimental, Rapp's work lends a useful, compassionate, healing message for suffering parents and caregivers."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"This memoir of extraordinary tenderness and grace in the face of unimaginable loss is searingly beautiful in the way of a sacred text. Emily Rapp certainly didn't sign on to be our guide into the deepest crevasses of the human heartmehr

Autor

Emily Rapp ist Schriftstellerin und Professorin für kreatives Schreiben und Literatur in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sie wurde in Nebraska geboren. Sie hat für diverse Zeitungen und Zeitschriften geschrieben, darunter die "Los Angeles Times" und "Salon".Emily Rapp, the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, is currently professor of creative writing and literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and a faculty member in the University of California-Riverside MFA program. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.