Isbn: 9780375414794 - the story of my father: a memoir (33 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOK In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father, James Nichols, once a truly vital man, as he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Beginning an intensely personal journey, she recalls the bitter irony of watching this church historian wrestle with his increasingly befuddled notion of time and meaning. She details the struggles with doctors, her own choices, and the attempt to find a caring response to a disease whose special cruelty is to diminish the humanity of those it strikes. In luminous prose, Sue Miller has fashioned a compassionate inventory of two lives, a memoir destined to offer comfort to all sons and daughters struggling to make peace with their fathers and with themselves.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOK In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father, James Nichols, once a truly vital man, as he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Beginning an intensely personal journey, she recalls the bitter irony of watching this church historian wrestle with his increasingly befuddled notion of time and meaning. She details the struggles with doctors, her own choices, and the attempt to find a caring response to a disease whose special cruelty is to diminish the humanity of those it strikes. In luminous prose, Sue Miller has fashioned a compassionate inventory of two lives, a memoir destined to offer comfort to all sons and daughters struggling to make peace with their fathers and with themselves.…

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Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Minimal wear to corners. 2003 Hard Cover. 173 pp. In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples with the haunting memories of those final months and the larger narrative of her father's life. With compassion, self-scrutiny, and an urgency born of her own yearning to rescue her father's memory from the disorder and oblivion that marked his dying and death, Sue Miller takes us on an intensely personal journey that becomes, by virtue of her enormous gifts of observation, perception, and literary precision, a universal story of fathers and daughters. James Nichols was a fourth-generation minister, a retired professor from Princeton Theological Seminary. Sue Miller brings her father brilliantly to life in these pages-his religious faith, his endless patience with his children, his gaiety and willingness to delight in the ridiculous, his singular gifts as a listener, and the rituals of church life that stayed with him through his final days. She recalls the bitter irony of watching him, a church historian, wrestle with a disease that inexorably lays waste to notions of time, history, and meaning. She recounts her struggle with doctors, her deep ambivalence about many of her own choices, and the difficulty of finding, continually, the humane and moral response to a disease whose special cruelty it is to dissolve particularities and to diminish, in so many ways, the humanity of those it strikes. She reflects, unforgettably, on the variable nature of memory, the paradox of trying to weave a truthful narrative from the threads of a dissolving life. And she offers stunning insight into her own life as both a daughter and a writer, two roles that swell together here in a poignant meditation on the consolations of storytelling. With the care, restraint, and consummate skill that define her beloved and best-selling fiction, Sue Miller now gives us a rigorous, compassionate inventory of two lives, in a memoir destined to offer comfort to all sons and daughters struggling-as we all eventually must-to make peace with their fathers and with themselves. Signed by author. …

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First edition, stated. Signed by the author on the half-title page: "Sue Miller." The book is unmarked; spine slant; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $22.50); a horizontal crease along the top edge; Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition - first printing. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket covered with Brodart. 171 pages.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. [8], 173, [11] pages. Frontis illustration. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: To Susie - best wishes. Sue Miller. Contains several black and white family photographs. Also contains acknowledgments. Sue Miller (born November 29, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels. Two of her novels have been made into feature films, and her book While I Was Gone was an Oprah's Book Club pick in 2000. Miller has taught creative writing classes at Smith College, Amherst, Tufts, MIT, and Boston University. The author's father, James Nichols, was a fourth-generation minister, a retired professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. She recalls caring for him, and the bitter irony of watching him, a church historian, wrestle with Alzheimer's, a disease that inexorably lays waste to notions of time, history, and meaning. Derived from a Kirkus review: In a perfectly pitched memoir, novelist Miller movingly depicts the bittersweet emotions provoked by the toll Alzheimer's exacted on her father. He was an ordained minister and had taught Church History at the University of Chicago and Princeton. Unlike Miller's volatile, self-absorbed mother, who took greater pleasure in privacy than in maternity, her father was quiet, reserved, and fond of spending time with his four children. He read to them, taught them outdoor skills during their summers in Maine, and had a great gift for listening, giving their conversation his full attention. Miller resumed her old intimacy with her father, showing him her short stories, which were beginning to be published and spending summers with him in New Hampshire fixing up the house he had bought there. In retrospect, she recognizes that he already had Alzheimer's. He confessed to being unable to read or write since his wife died, but Miller attributed those symptoms to depression. He wore the same clothes often, but he had always been an abstracted man, caught up in the world of ideas. Six years after her mother died, Miller got a phone call from the police, who had found her father wandering around the countryside in western Massachusetts. He was clearly disoriented, and his children realized he could no longer live alone. Miller eventually became responsible for him, visiting almost daily at the nursing home and monitoring his care. She affectingly details his long decline as well as what is known about Alzheimer's. Writing this memoir, she finds, brings her consolation. A loving and eloquent tribute from a talented daughter. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. …