Absolutely delicious : a chronicle of extraordinary dying
Lester, Alison Jean2020
Book
After a life marbled with exploration, academia, and domesticity, the writer Valerie Lester retired to a residential hospice and set about enjoying the final act of her life. Yes. Enjoying. She knew just where she wanted to be, with whom, doing what, and she communicated this to her family and friends with clarity and consistency. She died nine weeks later, having engaged in dying with equanimity, curiosity, and even amusement. 'Absolutely Delicious' describes the months novelist Alison Jean Lester spent with her mother. Motivated to write the book because of how her mother faced the fact that her cancer was terminal, and how she chose to approach the end of her life with the same positive energy with which she had lived, Lester shares the emotional, medical, logistical and social aspects of this extraordinary experience.
Main title:
Absolutely delicious : a chronicle of extraordinary dying / Alison Jean Lester ; illustrated by Mary Ann Frye.
Author:
Lester, Alison Jean, authorFrye, Mary Ann, illustrator
Imprint:
Droitwich Spa : Bench Press, 2020.
Collation:
1 volume : illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9781838112400 (pbk)
Dewey class:
155.937092155.937 LES
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3140605