Death in Slow Motion

A raw, unsentimental and passionately written memoir about trying to care for a parent with Alzheimer''s 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.

About the author

Eleanor Cooney has published four novels. She lives in Mendocino, California.

Product details

• Authors: Elanor Cooney, Eleanor Cooney
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2004
• EAN: 9780060937973
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093797-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 206 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Gender studies: women and girls, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Medical (incl. Patients), FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, WOMEN'S STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIO, MEDICAL: Essays, HEALTH & FITNESS: Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia, MEDICAL: Geriatrics, HEALTH & FITNESS: Diseases & Conditions / Musculoskeletal