Child - Softcover

Miller, Patti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864486953 ISBN 13: 9781864486957

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1998

Synopsis

Corrie and Michael's twenty-year-old son, Tom, goes to Asia after dropping out of university - no-one hears from him and he does not return on the due date. His parents are left to contemplate the nightmarish possibilities. Corrie, haunted by her own unremembered past, waits, while Michael travels through Asia looking for their son.At home, Corrie begins to write Tom's life from conception to adulthood. Once upon a time when everything was as it should be. She tries to fathom the mysterious unknowability of her own son and soon realises she is writing a spell, trying to call him back into her world. In the process, she creates an intensely sensuous and emotional exploration of motherhood - its pleasures, failures, irritations, griefs and joys. She is confronted by the illusion of control and by the random mystery of things, the chance of it all, and desperately hopes chance will deliver her child back to her.

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Review

""The Child" truly is an encylopedic companion, like an erudite friend who seems always ready with a fascinating fact or a surprising perspective. It is not a textbook of the sort that functions best as a cure for insomnia; rather, it is the kind of book you might take to bed, then regret that you did as the hour grows later and yet you, feel no desire to close your eyes."--Robert Needlman "Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics "

"If the common thread connecting U.S. toilet-training theories, divorce customs during the French Revolution and Spot, the family dog, eludes you, pick up a copy of The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, the new reference book weighing only slightly less than an actual newborn."--;i>Chicago Tribune

--Heidi Stevens"Chicago Tribune" (12/27/2009)

"The Child truly is an encylopedic companion, like an erudite friend who seems always ready with a fascinating fact or a surprising perspective. It is not a textbook of the sort that functions best as a cure for insomnia; rather, it is the kind of book you might take to bed, then regret that you did as the hour grows later and yet you, feel no desire to close your eyes."--Robert Needlman "Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics "

About the Author

Patti Miller is a writer and teacher who lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. After teaching general writing classes for many years, Patti discovered how many people wanted to write their life story and designed workshops especially for them. Her first book, Writing Your Life grew out of those workshops and brought to a wide audience the techniques and skills which have inspired Patti's students. The Last One Who Remembers shows what is possible if a writer continues to explore their craft in this way.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1864486953
• ISBN 13: 9781864486957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360