The Still Point of the Turning World (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction) - Hardcover

Rapp, Emily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410457346 ISBN 13: 9781410457349

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2013

Synopsis

The Still Point of the Turning World A New York Times bestseller, The Still Point of the Turning World is Emily Rapp's arresting eulogy for her late son Ronan: a mother's experience raising a terminally ill child, and what it taught her about family, grief and parenting. Full description

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Review:

A brilliant study of the wages of mortal love. (The New York Times)

Rapp has written a beautiful and passionate elegy for her son, a book that offers deep wisdom for any reader. (The Boston Globe)

A radiant book steeped in deep feelings. (Los Angeles Times)

Rapp combines an essayist's willingness to lay herself bare on the page, a theologian's search to plumb the mysteries of life and a poet's precision. (The San Francisco Chronicle)

The Still Point of the Turning World begins as a book about a parent's worst fear, a child's death, but it finally becomes a celebration of Ronan's life, a call to action that urges us, its readers, to be fierce in our loves and our lives. (NPR)

Stunning. (O Magazine)

Agonising and sublime, is one of the greatest books I've read about how to love... An unforgettable, soul-gripping book. (The Australian)

Rapp writes with such radiant honesty and intelligence, pulling you close, making you care, teaching us to live in the moment-and love deeply. (Who Magazine)

Emily Rapp didn't want to tell this story. She had to. That necessity is evident in every word of this intelligent, ferocious, grace-filled, gritty, astonishing starlight of a book. (Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild)

It's hard to find words that do justice to Emily Rapp's The Still Point of the Turning World. It's one of those rare books that you want to press into people's hands and simply say, "You must read this. You will thank me." At every turn, Rapp avoids the maudlin and the expected to get at very deep truths, sometimes painful and sometimes liberating and sometimes both. She looks for wisdom and comfort to a wide range of sources ranging from C.S. Lewis to Marilynne Robinson to Buddhist teaching. And she looks to her son. This is one family's story of living while facing death, but also an astonishingly generous work about recognizing the pain and grace that exist all around us. (Will Schwalbe, bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club)

Book Description:

A New York Times bestseller, The Still Point of the Turning World is Emily Rapp's arresting eulogy for her late son Ronan: a mother's experience raising a terminally ill child, and what it taught her about family, grief and parenting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1410457346
• ISBN 13: 9781410457349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 335