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$14.95 paperback
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120 pages
Novello Festival Press |
At the time that Deborah
Cumming wrote Recovering from Mortality, she was living in a
situation not widely recognized but shared by many people. She knew that
she might die soon, yet she was not dying now. What is a person to think
in this limbo time? How is a person to act?
Rather than accept formulaic
answers to these questions, she decided to discover her own path. She didn’t
want to pass on her answers to others; she didn’t believe she
knew universal answers. Nor was she interested in adding another story of
a cancer patient who survived heroically or died movingly.
She did want to commune with
others in limbo, with people who might find it a lonely or mysterious
condition. And she felt increasingly that she was talking about the human
condition in general, for whether we acknowledge it or not, all our lives
will end in the not-very-distant future. She felt she wanted to be in
communication, not just with the dying, but with the living.
This
poignant collection of essays examines how we live our lives, in large and
small ways. Friendship, family, neighbors, community—these help define
who we are and Deborah Cumming writes about them with insight, and with
heart.
about the author
Deborah
Cumming was the author of the critically acclaimed short-fiction
collection, The Descent of Music. A teacher and writer who traveled
the world, she made her home in Davidson, North Carolina. Deborah Cumming
died in 2003. |
