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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sonnenberg, Susanna, 1965- Her last death. New York : Scribner, 2008 (OCoLC)608470982 |
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| Named Person: | Susanna Sonnenberg; Susanna Sonnenberg |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susanna Sonnenberg |
| ISBN: | 9780743291088 0743291085 |
| OCLC Number: | 81150370 |
| Description: | 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Susanna Sonnenberg. |
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Abstract:
A searing, beautifully written, and compulsively readable memoir by a daughter who grew up with a narcissistic and addictive mother. Sonnenberg mines her painful and often startling memories as she examines her struggle to break free of her mothers all-consuming influence.
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""Her Last Death" recounts 'the true calamity of being daughter to this mother, ' and the wonder of this memoir is that the author survived her traumatic childhood and found a way of turning her memories into a fiercely observed, fluently written book...Writing in sharp, crystalline prose, Ms. Sonnenberg... plung(es) readers into a sort of perpetual present tense in which we are made to experience, almost firsthand, the inexplicable and perverse behavior of an impossible woman from the point of view of her aghast, bedazzled -- and immensely gifted -- daughter."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" Read more...
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