The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying / Nina Riggs.
Material type: TextPublisher: Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing Company, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 310 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925498493
- 1925498492
- 362.196994490092 23
- RC280.B8 R5355 2017
- WP 870
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In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying is Nina's intimate, unflinching account of ̀living with death in the room'. She tells her story in a series of absurd, poignant and often hilarious vignettes drawn from a life that has ǹo real future or arc left to it, yet still goes on as if it does'. This unforgettable memoir leads the reader into the innermost chambers of the writer's life: into the mind and heart, the work and home and family, of a young woman alternately seeking to make peace with and raging against the reality of her approaching death.
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