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Year of Days
Myrl Coulter
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Description for Year of Days
Paperback. Canadian author re-examines her life following the harrowing loss of her mother to dementia. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 286.
“As soon as she was gone from this earth, I felt an overwhelming need for more of her. I had to find her again. But how do you find someone after they’re gone for good?” After her mother succumbed to a rare form of dementia, Myrl Coulter turned the eulogy she had written for the funeral into a series of meditations on absence. The result is fifteen personal narrative essays that move through the vacations, holidays, special occasions, and ordinary days each year brings. Coulter reaches for the mother who is gone, yet ever-present, no matter where she is or what she is doing. In every captivating detail of Coulter’s world, A Year of Days offers readers an intimate odyssey of experience and catharsis.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9781772120455
SKU
V9781772120455
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Myrl Coulter
Born and raised in Manitoba, Myrl Coulter lives and writes in Edmonton, Alberta. She holds a PhD from the University of Alberta, where she taught English.
Reviews for Year of Days
"The book spans a single calendar year, but Coulter says what it’s really about is the process of living through the same dates and events, time and time again, even as our experiences of them change dramatically as we age." [Full article at http://bit.ly/1E0p6TF]
Michael Hingston
Edmonton Journal
On the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of May 8, 2015
Edmonton Journal
#3 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of May 22, 2015
Edmonton Journal
"A Year of Days is light without ever treading Hallmark grounds, funny while still acknowledging the gravitas of death and full of the remembered warmth or loss of not only the 'special' days, but also the days that lie around them by the hundreds: days at the lake, Mexican holidays and days in which we simply move and live. 'Keep moving,' Coulter writes. 'Movement is life.'"
Kimmy Beach
Alberta Views
Michael Hingston
Edmonton Journal
On the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of May 8, 2015
Edmonton Journal
#3 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of May 22, 2015
Edmonton Journal
"A Year of Days is light without ever treading Hallmark grounds, funny while still acknowledging the gravitas of death and full of the remembered warmth or loss of not only the 'special' days, but also the days that lie around them by the hundreds: days at the lake, Mexican holidays and days in which we simply move and live. 'Keep moving,' Coulter writes. 'Movement is life.'"
Kimmy Beach
Alberta Views