This is an unforgettable book about fathers and daughters from Sue Miller. In the spring of 1986, Sue Miller found herself more and more deeply involved in caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. "The Story of my Father", her first work of non-fiction, is a profound, deeply moving account of her father's final days and her own response to it. With care, restraint and consummate skill, Miller writes of her struggles to be fully with her father in his illness while confronting her own terror of abandonment, and eventually the long, hard work of grieving for him. And through this candid, painful record, she offers a rigorous, compassionate inventory of two lives, a powerful meditation on the variable nature of memory and the difficulty of weaving a truthful narrative from the threads of a dissolving life. This is a truly remarkable book from one of America's best loved authors.
- ISBN10 0747565198
- ISBN13 9780747565192
- Publish Date 5 May 2003 (first published 11 March 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 August 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/