# The Long Goodbye

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- Authors: [Meghan O’Rourke](https://www.bookquiver.com/meghan-orourke)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-08-25

## Description

Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but also at the inability of people to acknowledge her pain; her sense that the meaning of her life had changed fundamentally with the loss of a parent; the way that the reassuringly familiar often became somehow completely new and strange. The Long Goodbye interleaves personal recollections of her much-loved mother with an examination of what it means to grieve in a society which no longer has the rituals - or even, most of the time, the desire - to engage with grief, to understand it, and to let it do both its worst - and its best.

## Editions

### The Long Goodbye

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-677-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-04-05
- Language: en_GB

### The Long Goodbye

- Publisher: riverhead_books
- ISBN: 978-15-9448-566-4
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2012-04-03
- Language: en_US

### The Long Goodbye

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4813-061-0
- Published: 2011-08-25
- Language: en_GB