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Informationen zum Autor Jo Ann Beard is the author the collections Festival Days and The Boys of My Youth , and the novel In Zanesville . Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays , and others, and has received a Whiting Foundation Award, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Award in Literature. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Klappentext This heart wrenching novella honours all the wonders of life through the lens of one woman's journey towards death Vorwort This heart wrenching novella honours all the wonders of life through the lens of one woman's journey towards death Zusammenfassung An Irish Times Book of the Year 2023'An extraordinary achievement' Mary Gaitskill'In the hands of a maestro, less can be so much more' Independent Cheri has been living with cancer for many years. Now, she is dying. As she navigates the final weeks of her life, and takes charge of the manner of her death, she is flooded with childhood memories, and returns to the present with a renewed appreciation for the brilliance of life around her: the autumn has never been so beautiful, her daughters never as radiant. Brave, incredibly strong and deeply loved, Cheri makes one last nerve-wracking journey across the country with her girls and her friends, knowing relief waits welcoming as a frozen lake on the other side. A masterpiece of fiction and memory, Cheri is a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the moments of beauty and pain that make an individual life, right up until its very last moments.
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Cheri is richly packed. The details are laid before the reader with a simplicity that feels like grace. Beard's vocabulary is luminous ... Beard combines the lapidary chill of Joan Didion with the sense of a proper, lived humanity that you get from a writer like Grace Paley or Sigrid Nunez. She is good company. She connects. You should read her and not look away Anne Enright Guardian
