Anticipate Every Goodbye - Softcover

Sulivan, Jean; Maher, Eamon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853905402 ISBN 13: 9781853905407

Publisher: Veritas Books, 2000

Synopsis

This is a memoir of the author s mother, a woman who imparted a simple faith to her son. This book speaks intimately to anyone who has anticipated saying goodbye to our parents and loved ones.

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Review:

This is the memoir of a French writer Jean Sulivan, a Breton priest who assumed this nom de plume because of his admiration for teh Hollywood comedy Sullivan s travels. The book deals with growing up in Brittany in hte immediate aftermath of of World War, a conflict which claimed his father; the traumatic remarriage of a pious mother, to whome he was very close; his vocation to the priesthood; his early career as a writer; and the death of his mother. Says Eamon: His mother s unflinching faith has always been an inspiration to Sulivan. When she experienced doubts on her death bed, her son wondered how he himself would face that challenge. Finding the book raw and moving, Eamon translated it into English. Its account of a Breton rural childhood will reverberate with experience of many Irish people. --- Joe Armstrong. Reality magazine, November 2009

About this edition

• Publisher: Veritas Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1853905402
• ISBN 13: 9781853905407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136