Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780446552394 (0446552399)
Publish date: May 6th 2009
Publisher: Twelve
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
I finished Buckley's Thank You for Smoking, liked it, and put Buckley on my mental Take Note Of list. Picked this up while browsing. Kinda wish I hadn't. Buckley writes well, but I don't care enough about the subject matter to wade through what seems like a novel-length catharsis-tripping journal...
A perfectly splendid memoir, which seems an odd thing to say about a book primarily concerned with death. Buckley is hilarious, wry and incisive. He never descends into the maudlin, but he is vulnerable and open about his grief and the ways he moves through it. The rich ARE different, of course, and...
Audio read by the author.
This is such a beautifully written book about losing your parents. I was never a fan of William F. Buckley's politics, but you have to admire his writing ability and his son Christopher does a wonderful job in eulogizing both his parents in this easy to read book. Christopher Buckley is one writer I...
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