Resisting Elegy: On Grief and Recovery
Book Details
Author(s)
Joel Peckham
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
ISBN / ASIN
0897336259
ISBN-13
9780897336253
Availability
Usually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank
#1,966,150
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Ratings & Reviews
No reviews yet — be the first!
No reviews yet.
Description
In this thoughtful collection of narratives, author Joel Peckham explores the transformative power of emotional and physical pain from the vantage point of a husband and parent who lost his wife and a child in an accident thatleft him in chronic distress. Along the way, he ï¬lls a need for a brutally honest literary examination of not only grief and suffering, but also of recovery.
Â
There are no heroes in these pages, and the author has consciously resisted the mythmaking impulse--that desire to honor the dead and to give tragedy purpose by telling a sad but inspirational story. Instead, the book does a great deal to counter our assumptions about grief and suffering--assumptions that do damage both to those in pain and those who try to comfort them.
Â
There are no heroes in these pages, and the author has consciously resisted the mythmaking impulse--that desire to honor the dead and to give tragedy purpose by telling a sad but inspirational story. Instead, the book does a great deal to counter our assumptions about grief and suffering--assumptions that do damage both to those in pain and those who try to comfort them.
