Description
When Didier Eribon’s mother began to lose her physical and cognitive autonomy, the author and his brothers were compelled to place her in a nursing home, despite their misgivings. A few weeks later, she died. Tracing his mother’s rapid decline – and drawing on works by Simone de Beauvoir, Norbert Elias, Annie Ernaux and Michel Foucault, among others – Eribon offers an honest and wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between ageing, gender and class, transmuting his own rage, sadness and shame into a strikingly nuanced portrait of the most overlooked human experience.
Details
  • Author: Eribon, Didier
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780241686720
  • B-Code: B080832
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  • Pages: 256
  • Dimensions: 224x143mm
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