编辑推荐
“Deft, sincere and eloquent. . . With the care, restraint, and
consummate skill that define her well-crafted and bestselling
fiction, Sue Miller has now written a beautiful, compelling memoir
about her father and his downward spiral into the demonic grasp of
Alzheimer’s disease.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Stunning. . . A remarkable yet self-effacing testament
to the vagaries of memory . . . [Miller] turns a man’s simple life
and tragic death into a lively and unforgettable narrative.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Deeply affecting . . . Like any memoir, this one is a
way of bringing its subject back to life. . . . [This] beautifully
written little book takes on the narrative power of first-rate
fiction.”
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Beautifully written . . . Style and story are so
seamlessly fused, and so perfectly balanced, that true clarity
emerges."
—The Boston Globe
内容简介
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
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.
作者简介
Sue Miller is the best-selling author of The World Below,
While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For
Love, Family Pictures, Inventing the Abbotts, and
The Good Mother. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
From the Hardcover edition.