Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking

di Michael Harding (Autore)

Hachette Books Ireland, 2014

Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained. When he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately, he found a way out of the dark, by accepting the fragility of love and the importance of now. Staring at Lakes started out as a book about depression. And then became a story about growing old, the essence of love and marriage - and sitting in cars, staring at lakes.

• Autore: Michael Harding
• Editore: Hachette Books Ireland
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 320 p.
• Dimensioni: 197 x 131 mm
• Peso: 226 gr.
• EAN: 9781444743500

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