| #3643234 in Books | University of Nebraska Press | 2002-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .69 x6.68 x8.14l,.77 | File type: PDF | 148 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| --which is what great writing should be|By Marvella Bean|I agree with the review of "A Customer"--that this book is beyond a tale of coping with loss. The empathy and pain with which Sternburg evokes her mother's last years is agonizing and cathartic,--which is what great writing should be. I suggest reading this along with "White Matter," by the same author; the pictures in "W|From Library Journal|This is a memoir for anyone who has suffered a significant loss or nursed an aging parent through a long-term illness. Sternburg's mother's leg was amputated yet she continued to feel as if the limb were present; here, the "phantom limb" bec
Phantom Limb is a wise and courageous memoir that moves between past and present, chronicling an adult daughter’s journey through the final years of her parents’ lives. A story of discovering love through adversity as well as an inquiry into contemporary neurology and spiritual life, Phantom Limb is a moving meditation on the struggle to make peace with physical and emotional ghosts of the past. Janet Sternburg writes with such warmth and h...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Phantom Limb (American Lives) | Janet Sternburg. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
