Sweet Mystery - A Book of Remembering

Judith Paterson was just nine years old in 1946 when her mother died of a virulent combination of alcoholism and mental illness at the age of 31. Sweet Mystery is Paterson's harrowing account of the memories of her mother, told with eloquence and understanding.

List of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Emily and Duke
• Narrow Lane Road
• Wares Ferry
• The Country
• Unborn Baby
• Breaking Down
• A Son Is Born
• A World of Trouble
• Pearl Harbor
• Sheeps and Goats
• Pass the Ammunition
• Two Moves and a Departure
• New York
• Silenced
• Wilmington Road
• The Old Trouble
• Mrs. O'Gwynn's Room
• Back to the Country
• Death
• Life After Death
• Coda
• Afterword
• Suggestions for Further Reading




About the author










Judith Hillman Paterson served as professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery and as a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She has published four books including literary studies of the work of Sir Thomas More and Philip Roth. She lives in her hometown, Montgomery, Alabama, with her husband, Mark Grable.



Summary

Judith Paterson was just nine years old in 1946 when her mother died of a virulent combination of alcoholism and mental illness at the age of 31. Sweet Mystery is Paterson's harrowing account of the memories of her mother, told with eloquence and understanding.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Hillman Paterson
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780817359607
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5960-7
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9144 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Illustrations: 18 black & white figures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies