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Passing : a memoir of love and death Cover Image Book Book

Passing : a memoir of love and death / Michael Korda.

Korda, Michael, 1933- (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781631494642
  • ISBN: 1631494643
  • Physical Description: 239 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

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Summary, etc.:
"In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, 'Michael, I think something serious is wrong with me.' Within a few rapid weeks, the fiercely independent, former fashion model was diagnosed with brain cancer, while Michael, once reliant on her steeliness, became her caregiver, deciphering bewildering medical reports and packing her beloved toiletries for the hospital. An operation performed by a renowned surgeon allowed Margaret to ride her favorite competition horse Logan go Bragh a few more times, but Margaret's tumors quickly returned--leaving her to grapple with the reality of impending death. In rapturous prose, Korda, a modern-day Orpheus, braids her heroic story with heartrending details of their final year together. Passing, a tender memoir, is a testament to the transcendent possibilities of love"-- Provided by publisher.

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Subject: Korda, Michael, 1933- > Marriage.
Korda, Michael, 1933- > Family.
Korda, Margaret, 1937- > Death and burial.
Brain > Cancer > Patients > Family relationships > Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Grief.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Madison Square 362.19699481 K841p (Text) 31307024029474 Non Fiction Available -
Main 362.19699481 K841p (Text) 31307024029482 Non Fiction Available -
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Summary: "In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, 'Michael, I think something serious is wrong with me.' Within a few rapid weeks, the fiercely independent, former fashion model was diagnosed with brain cancer, while Michael, once reliant on her steeliness, became her caregiver, deciphering bewildering medical reports and packing her beloved toiletries for the hospital. An operation performed by a renowned surgeon allowed Margaret to ride her favorite competition horse Logan go Bragh a few more times, but Margaret's tumors quickly returned--leaving her to grapple with the reality of impending death. In rapturous prose, Korda, a modern-day Orpheus, braids her heroic story with heartrending details of their final year together. Passing, a tender memoir, is a testament to the transcendent possibilities of love"--
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