Jean Baird

The Heart Does Break

Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning

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A book in which some of our best writers address their own losses — and help us endure our own...A heartbreaking, comforting and beautiful collection of true stories about grief and mourning from some of Canada's best known writers.When Jean Baird's daughter, Bronwyn, died suddenly, Jean's deep instinct was to turn to books to help her in her time of sudden loss. Although she found that the thoughts of counselors, psychologists, Buddhists, and self-help gurus were perhaps some help, the works that truly reached to the heart of the matter were by literary writers, largely from the UK and the US. Scanning the Canadian landscape, Jean and her hu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bowering, George

ISBN: 978-0-307-35703-8
EAN: 9780307357038
Produktnummer: 27464041
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 368 S.

Über den Autor

Jean Baird has been an English professor, magazine publisher, consultant for non-profit organizations, and creative director of Canada Book Week for the Writers' Trust of Canada. George Bowering is a poet, novelist, essayist, critic, historian and editor. In 2002 he was appointed Canada's first Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.