Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats Paperback - 2012
by Rosenblatt, Roger
- Used
"Kayak Morning" is a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the solace of solitude, and the redemptive power of love, from the bestselling author of "Making Toast" and "Unless It Moves the Human Heart."
Description
Details
- Title Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats
- Author Rosenblatt, Roger
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins, New York
- Date 2012-01-03
- Features Deckle Edges
- Bookseller's Inventory # 31UIGP001BXE_ns
- ISBN 9780062084033 / 0062084038
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects Grief, Loss (Psychology)
- Dewey Decimal Code 155.93
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From the rear cover
From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the solace of solitude, and the redemptive power of love
In Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in Kayak Morning, he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. "Everybody grieves," he writes. From that terse, melancholy observation emerges a work of art that addresses the universal experience of loss.
On a quiet Sunday morning, two and a half years after Amy's death, Roger heads out in his kayak. He observes,"You can't always make your way in the world by moving up. Or down, for that matter. Boats move laterally on water, which levels everything. It is one of the two great levelers." Part elegy, part quest, Kayak Morning explores Roger's years as a journalist, the comforts of literature, and the value of solitude, poignantly reminding us that grief is not apart from life but encompasses it. In recalling to us what we have lost, grief by necessity resurrects what we have had.
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 12/15/2011, Page 7
- Library Journal, 08/01/2011, Page 60
- New York Times Book Review, 01/08/2012, Page 9
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/02/2012, Page 26
- People Weekly, 01/16/2012, Page 50
- Publishers Weekly, 10/10/2011, Page 43
