Pushkin Collection: A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Paperback)

from kidzdoc

In 1972, the author's mother took her own life by overdosing on sleeping pills, after an unremarkable life of 51 years that was marred by poverty, depression, neurogenic pain, and especially the limited opportunities available to her. After the initial "dull speechlessness" he experienced after r...

from kidzdoc

In 1972, the author's mother took her own life by overdosing on sleeping pills, after an unremarkable life of 51 years that was marred by poverty, depression, neurogenic pain, and especially the limited opportunities available to her. After the initial "dull speechlessness" he experienced after r...

from greeniezona

This slim volume (76 pages) is an author's attempt to process his mother's suicide. It ends up being both the story of his mother's life, and more generally, about what it was like to be a poor woman in Germany, living through World War II and its aftermath. About a woman's sense of identity or l...

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A frank and open account of a son's reaction to the death of a mother by suicide. Swept up with excitement of the 1930s followed by making ends meet, crushed, nervous breakdowns after the war and coming to terms with one's feelings, some of them unexpected, after the death. Fascinating.