All things consoled : a daughter's memoir
Hay, Elizabeth, 1951-2020
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From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most celebrated novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and principled schoolteacher with an explosive temper. Elizabeth, the so-called difficult child, always suspected she would end up caring for them in their final years, in part to atone for her childhood sins. Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre". "All Things Consoled" takes you inside the massacre as Hay's ferociously-independent parents become increasingly dependent on her. Hay lays bare the agony of a family coping as old age turns into the tragedy of living too long. In the end, she arrives at a more nuanced understanding of her mother and father, and of herself as their daughter. They were and remain the two vivid giants in her life.
Main title:
All things consoled : a daughter's memoir / Elizabeth Hay.
Author:
Hay, Elizabeth, 1951-, author
Edition:
Paperback edition.
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2020.©2018.
Collation:
251 pages : 2 portraits ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780857059130 (mass market paperback)9780857059147 (ebook)
Dewey class:
C813.6362.63B/HAY
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
553098