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Bequest And Betrayal: Memoirs Of A Parent'S Death
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My Mother'S Death Was A Shockan Athletic Nonsmoker, She Was Diagnosed As Having Lung Cancer Days After Her Sixtyeighth Birthday And Died A Few Months Later. It Was Only In The Years Following Her Death, When My Father Became Physically And Mentally Crippled By Parkinson'S Disease, That I Began To Think And To Write About The End Of Life. So Notes Nancy K. Miller In The Opening Pages Of Bequest And Betrayal, An Innovative Form Of Memoir That Blends Astute Literary Criticism And Gripping Autobiographical Passages As It Illuminates An Experience That Is Both Universal And Intensely Private: The Death Of A Parent.Bequest And Betrayal Is Composed Like A Tapestry, Weaving Together Insightful Readings Of Books Like Philip Roth'S Patrimony With Harrowing Autobiographical Material About The Last Years Of Miller'S Own Parents. By Incorporating Her Own Deeply Felt Memories Into The Text, The Author Gives Weight To Her Examination Of The Central Themes That Emerge: The Relations Between Mothers And Daughters, Fathers And Sons, And Fathers And Daughters; The Crisis Of Aging And Of Bodies In Decline; What It Means To Write About Someone Else'S Suffering; How Questions Of Class And Religion Shape The Relationship Between Parent And Child. With Great Sensitivity, She Shows How The Adult Childconfronted With The Loss Of Parentscomes To Terms Through Autobiographical Narrative. To Do This, Miller Examines A Series Of Autobiographical Works In Which A Parent'S Death Is Central To The Family Plot, Including Simone De Beauvoir'S A Very Easy Death, Susan Cheever'S Home Before Dark, And Art Spiegelman'S Maus. Telling The Story Of A Parent'S Death, Miller Demonstrates, Is A Way Of Rewriting One'S Own Sense Of History, One'S Present Self In Relation To Childhood.Whether She Is Shedding Light On The Memoirs Of Other Contemporary Writers Or Relating A Detail Of Her Father'S Struggle With Parkinson'S Disease, Miller Captivates Us With Her Fearless, Original Intelligence. Combining Miller'S Broad Knowledge Of Literature, Her Wry Sensibility, And Engaging Prose Style, Bequest And Betrayal Is A Book Of Outstanding Grace And Complexity, Highly Readable And Often Very Moving.
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