A DEATH OF ONE'S OWN

by Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner's search to extract meaning from death's violent mystery glows with the humanist energy of an honest yet consoling and inspiring vision.-Helen Yglesias New York Times Book Review"A book about courage, written without heroics or sentimentality This is a story out of ordinary life, about love and endurance and loyalty."-Elizabeth Janeway, author"This is a deeply moving and exquisitely sensitive account."-Daniel Schorr, journalist and author"A great book unflinchingly revelatory of its writer, a man, a marriage-reflective of the passionate richness the last passage of life can have."-Honor Moore, author and poet"In her deeply moving document, Lerner copes with the moral questions of the patient's right to know, his right to choose, his right to die Though intensely personal, Lerner's story speaks with a universal quality."-Wilma Salisbury, Cleveland Plain Dealer"This book gives one hope-that marriage, in the very real sense of the word, is still possible."-Eleanor Perry, screenwriter

Genres: Nonfiction, Death

274 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 1978

About the author

Gerda Lerner was a historian, author and teacher. She was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a visiting scholar at Duke University.

Lerner was one of the founders of the field of women's history, and was a former president of the Organization of American Historians. She played a key role in the development of women's history curricula. She taught what is considered to be the first women's history course in the world at the New School for Social Research in 1963. She was also involved in the development of similar programs at Long Island University (1965–1967), at Sarah Lawrence College from 1968 to 1979 (where she established the nation's first Women's History graduate program), at Columbia University (where she was a co-founder of the Seminar on Women), and from 1980 until her retirement as Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Reviews

[Veroncol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Testi come questo sono pietre che ti porti sulle spalle per l’eternità. Ogni frase scava cuore e anima e non puoi più dimenticare di averle letta, ti risale attraverso lo stomaco per riecheggiare nella mente, all’infinito. Valga questo come trigger warning: non è un libro per tutti. Tocca piani dell’esistenza talmente fragili e delicati che scuotendoli si rischia di rimanerne traumatizzati.

Leggetelo, fatene tesoro e Dio non voglia che dobbiate tornarci per cercare risposte.

[Brideshead · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un hermoso libro que recorre desde la aparición de la enfermedad los distintos estadios hasta el final. La autora intenta con estas memorias decir adiós, conjurar el dolor de la pérdida, recordar lo mejor del ser querido. Es también una lúcida reflexión de la muerte como parte de la vida, como algo que nos afecta a todos porque todos somos seres humanos.