Necessary Losses - Softcover

Viorst, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671653202 ISBN 13: 9780671653200

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

Synthesizing psychoanalytic theory, literature, interviews and personal experiences, the author of this book attempts to demonstrate what we have to give up in order to grow. The book looks at all kinds of loss and tries to help the reader to come to terms with it.

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Review:

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"

One of the most sensitive and comprehensive books about the human condition I have read in a long time.

Benjamin Spock, M.D.

This perceptive book should absorb and enrich anyone who admits to being human.

United Press International

The kind of book that belongs in every household. It is simply healthy to have around.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" One of the most sensitive and comprehensive books about the human condition I have read in a long time.

United Press International The kind of book that belongs in every household. It is simply healthy to have around.

Benjamin Spock, M.D. This perceptive book should absorb and enrich anyone who admits to being human.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People One of the most sensitive and comprehensive books about the human condition I have read in a long time.

About the Author:

Judith Viorst was born and brought up in New Jersey and has lived in Washington, DC, since 1960, when she married Milton Viorst, a political writer. A graduate in 1981 of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Viorst writes in many different areas: science books, children's chapter and picture books--including the beloved Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold some four million copies; adult fiction and nonfiction including the New York Times bestseller, Necessary Losses; poetry for children and adults, and four musicals. Her most recent book of poetry for children, What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About? was published in 2016. Lulu Is Getting a Sister is the fourth book in the Lulu series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0671653202
• ISBN 13: 9780671653200
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448