Death in Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's Paperback - 2004
by Eleanor Cooney
When it was plain that Cooney's once glamorous and witty novelist-mother had Alzheimer's, Cooney moved her across the continent in order to care for her. In bitter, searing prose, Cooney documents the slow disintegration of both her mother and the powerful lifelong bond the two had shared.
First line
September: About eleven months since we moved my mother to California to live with us, I wake at dawn from queasy dreams where I'm sliding down steep slimy banks of mucky pools or flying in a crowded flimsy airplane being pulled to earth by heavy gravity or search for lost kittens in a dank primeval forest.
From the rear cover
When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair.
But the coping mechanism that finally serves this eloquent writer best is writing, the ability to bring to vivid life the memories her mother is losing. As her mother gropes in the gathering darkness for a grip on the world she once loved, succeeding only in conjuring sad fantasies of places and times with her late husband, Cooney revisits their true past. Death in Slow Motion becomes the mesmerizing story of Eleanor's actual childhood, straight out of the pages of John Cheever; the daring and vibrant mother she remembers; and a time that no longer exists for either of them.
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- Title Death in Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's
- Author Eleanor Cooney
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2004-02-03
- ISBN 9780060937973 / 0060937971
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.24 x 0.66 in (20.37 x 13.31 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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