An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir
Elizabeth McCracken has called this memoir "the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," but it is far more than that. It is the story of a great love and a numbing loss. When McCracken met British novelist Edward Carey, she was a successful, prizewinning novelist without romantic...
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Elizabeth McCracken has called this memoir "the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," but it is far more than that. It is the story of a great love and a numbing loss. When McCracken met British novelist Edward Carey, she was a successful, prizewinning novelist without romantic plans. They swept each other away, got married, moved to France, and prepared for the birth of their first child. Then, in the final month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, the baby died. Crushed yet sustained by their love, the couple wrestled with the sudden vacancy in their lives. Written with the sensitivity and nuance of her novels and short stories, McCracken's An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination soothes an ache even as it expresses it.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316027663 (0316027669)
Publish date: February 22nd 2010
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Elizabeth McCracken writes, "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," and proceeds to tell a powerful story of life-changing loss, slow and painful healing and eventually, hope. She offers a new vocabulary for loss and thought-provoking ideas on how we deal with a stillborn ...
Far too intense and personal to assign any sort of rating to--to judge this one by silly stars seems disrespectful to the incredibly painful subject matter. It's excellent, though; rarely am I as empathetically involved as I was with this memoir. Probably not a good book to read if you are or plan t...
McCracken's writing is beautiful, and her memoir of this period in her life and this loss is so honest. Apart from being an excellent read on its literary merits, it taught me how to be a friend to someone going through this loss, should it be needed. Like most people (like McCracken herself, as she...
This is the story of Elizabeth McCracken and how she survived the stillbirth of her son. It is her story alone. Yet it is the story of every woman who has experienced this tragedy. Ms. McCracken has given a voice on a subject that has long been much too silent. I wish I had written this book. But I ...
"I want it, too, the imposible lighter-side book. I will always be a woman whose first child died, and I won't give up either that grievance or the bad jokes of everyday life. I will hold on to both forever. I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on but that death goes on, too, that a person...
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