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Joe Fiorito The Closer We Are to Dying
McClelland & Stewart 1999 077103119X / 9780771031199 Unknown Binding New
"Brand New, Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked Author() The title of this book is a quotation from a collection of essays by Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One: it could easily have come from another, On Grief and Reason. Confessional memoirs written as part of the grieving process for a parent proliferate these days and with good reason. At its best, the genre describes a rites-of-passage metamorphosis that requires the author to shed their childhood and make peace with themselves as much as with the parent. To volumes such as Philip Roth's Patrimony, Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue and Blake Morrison's And When Did You Last See Your Father can be added Joe Fiorito's The Closer We Are To Dying. Fiorito is a Canadian journalist whose grandparents fled Italy and settled in Northern Ontario, where he grew up. Such powerful emotional rawness can only be justified if deftly handled. In Fiorito's hands it scorches. The book follows the 20 nights that Fiorito spent at the hosp ID: mon0000010316"
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