Wet earth and dreams : a narrative of grief and recovery / Jane Lazarre.
Wet earth and dreams : a narrative of grief and recovery / Jane Lazarre.
Wet earth and dreams : a narrative of grief and recovery / Jane Lazarre.
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Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N362.1969944/15
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Language
English
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122 p. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
1998.
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Lazarre interweaves her experience of life-threatening illness with other stories of recent and past losses - most notably that of her mother to breast cancer when Jane was a small child. From these memories and experiences, Lazarre crafts a story that is at once intensely intimate and universally healing.
As she contends with the pain and many indignities of her treatment for cancer, Lazarre realizes that successful medical treatment will only be part of her healing process. Her own illness becomes the vehicle for coming to terms with key moments of loss and grief - the death of a beloved therapist from breast cancer, her brother-in-law's death from...
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Wet earth and dreams : a narrative of grief and recovery / Jane Lazarre.
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N362.1969944/15
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74VMyW2WR3BO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMyW2WR3BO
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ISBN
0822322064 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822322061 (cloth : alk. paper)
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362.196994490092
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991002105029702626
