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 · The Long Goodbye: An Open Letter to Meghan O’Rourke. I feel like I should start this letter with an apology. Someone told me of The Long Goodbye shortly after it came out, explaining how much I would love it and telling me that I had to read it. “You will relate to her so much,” she told me, “you will love her writing style, I promise.”.Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · "Meghan O'Rourke, a celebrated poet and critic, writes prose as if she was born to it first. Her memoir The Long Goodbye is emotionally acute, strikingly empathetic, thorough and unstinting intellectually, and of course elegantly wrought. But it's above all a useful book, for life -- the good bits and the sad ones, too." --(Richard Ford)Brand: Penguin Publishing Group. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is .

In The Long Goodbye (public library), her magnificent memoir of grieving her mother's death, Meghan O'Rourke crafts a masterwork of remembrance and reflection woven of extraordinary emotional intelligence. A poet, essayist, literary critic. The Long Goodbye. By Meghan O'Rourke. Hardcover, pages. Riverhead Hardcover. List Price: $ Read An Excerpt. Meghan O'Rourke opens her memoir, The Long Goodbye, with a quote from Iris. By Meghan O'Rourke (Riverhead; pages; $) "The Long Goodbye," poet and Slate culture critic Meghan O'Rourke's penetrating grief memoir, opens with an epigram from Iris Murdoch: "The.

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