Perdita: On Loss

Author:   Dylan Riley
Publisher:   Verso Books
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9781804296080


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   29 October 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are the miraculous product of this beautiful, rather crazy, and all too brief love affair."" When Dylan Riley received the devastating news that his wife, Emanuela, had cancer, he began writing blog posts describing the anguish and disarray brought by her worsening symptoms. Perdita is written for their teenage son, Eamon. It is a lyrical memoir of a marriage, from their heady first encounters in Rome. It is also a raw and moving account of a bereavement. Cancer, Riley reflects, is a pitiless opponent. It drains hope of its power and turns it into self-delusion. Living with cancer is to experience a progressive foreshortening of time. Next year might be terrible, but there can be a few good months now; tomorrow will likely be bad, but let's focus on today. Riley finds that hope itself, that tricky and dangerous emotion, grows out of the soil of our mortality, and of the mortality of those we love. Perdita offers no advice. It tries more simply to represent a lost connection. ""I wanted the world to know what it had it had lost,"" he explains, ""and maybe in knowing it to make her live again.

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Author:   Dylan Riley
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Weight:   0.250kg
ISBN:  

9781804296080


ISBN 10:   1804296082
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   29 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Provocative and moving, a transcript of an embattled soul. -- Gavin Jacobson, <i>New Statesman</i> (praise for <i>Microverses</i>) Small starbursts written with a light hand. -- Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, <i>LA Review of Books</i> (praise for <i>Microverses</i>)


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Dylan Riley was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1971 and teaches sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His other books are Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present and The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe.

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