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Download e-book for kindle: Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend (Writing Lives: by Laurel Richardson

By Laurel Richardson

ISBN-10: 1598741861

ISBN-13: 9781598741865

ISBN-10: 159874187X

ISBN-13: 9781598741872

Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema someday in June. She were a long term professor at Kent kingdom collage, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a series smoker. shut buddy Laurel Richardson, a key determine in literary flip in ethnographic writing, stored a daybook, concerning their conversations and interactions over Betty’s previous few months. wealthy in reminiscence, emotion, goals, and life-and-death judgements, the daybook chronicles the ups and down of a terminally ailing girl and the influence that disorder has on pals, colleagues, and relatives alike. Richardson additionally grapples with the ethics of writing deeply own narratives. half memoir, half sociological research, half eulogy to a departed good friend, Richardson opens a poignant window into residing a tutorial existence, and finishing it.

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