Praise of Motherhood
by:
Phil Jourdan (author)
When Phil Jourdan's mother died suddenly in 2009, she left behind a legacy of kindness and charity; but she also left unanswered some troubling questions. Was she, as she once claimed, a spy? Had she suffered more profoundly as a woman and parent than she'd let on? Jourdan's recollections of his...
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When Phil Jourdan's mother died suddenly in 2009, she left behind a legacy of kindness and charity; but she also left unanswered some troubling questions. Was she, as she once claimed, a spy? Had she suffered more profoundly as a woman and parent than she'd let on? Jourdan's recollections of his struggles with psychosis, and his reconstructions of conversations with his enigmatic mother, form the core of this memoir. Psychoanalysis, poetry and confession all merge to tell the story of an ordinary woman whose death turned her into a symbol for extraordinary motherhood.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781780992648 (1780992645)
ASIN: 1780992645
Publish date: 2012-05-16
Publisher: Zero Books
Pages no: 136
Edition language: English
An effective read, even if the theme is a little well-worn. A fine example of a young man meeting the one great truth: no one can ever truly know another.
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