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Light Years - by Le Anne Schreiber (Paperback)

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  • A searching memoir that bears witness to the shock of death, but even more to a vital and questing inner life, a rare triumph of understanding, and the discovery of vast open horizons.In this searching memoir, Le Anne Schreiber explores the shifts of perspective that accompany a growing intimacy with death.
  • Author(s): Le Anne Schreiber
  • 160 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Women

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In this searching memoir, a "New York Times" Notable Book for 1996, Le Anne Schreiber, the first female editor of "The New York Times", explores the shifts of perspective that accompany a growing intimacy with death. In the background are the deaths of Schreiber's parents and her brother. In the foreground are stories of certain simple elements in her life which define and bear witness to the shock of death.



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A searching memoir that bears witness to the shock of death, but even more to a vital and questing inner life, a rare triumph of understanding, and the discovery of vast open horizons.

In this searching memoir, Le Anne Schreiber explores the shifts of perspective that accompany a growing intimacy with death. Deeply moving, graced with subtle intelligence and humor, Light Years looks mortality in the eye and stares it down. In the background are three deaths occurring over five years--those of the author's mother, father, and brother. In the foreground are stories of certain simple elements of her life during this period--of a barn cat, impaled by a hunter's arrow, that she patiently nurses back to health; of a trout stream, whose raging waters thwart her attempt to release her father's ashes; of an overgrown acre that stubbornly refuses to be tamed.

Gradually, she traces the impact of these deaths on her understanding of such basic concepts as home, time, and territory, and her own textured past. Searching throughout this remarkable book for this-worldly sources of consolation, she finds them in unexpected places: long swims, a dream, an ancient oak, a book on Einstein, the view from a nearby hilltop.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.95 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .48 Inches (D)
Weight: .2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 160
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Women
Publisher: Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Le Anne Schreiber
Language: English
Street Date: October 13, 1997
TCIN: 1001619725
UPC: 9780385489430
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-1704
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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