The Long Goodbye: Memories of My Father

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$12.67 - $36.72
UPC:
9780452286870
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
9/27/2005
Release Date:
9/27/2005
Author:
Patti Davis
Language:
english
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Genuine and heartfelt. San Diego Union-Tribune

Ronald Reagans daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimers disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.

In this moving and illuminating portrait of a woman and her father,Patti Davis describes saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most preciousa persons memory. Alzheimers, she writes, snips away at the threads, a slow unraveling, a steady retreat; as a witness all you can do is watch, cry, and whisper a soft stream of goodbyes.

She writes of needing to be reunited at forty-two with her mother, of regaining what they had spent decades demolishing. A truce was necessary to bring together a splintered family, a few weeks before her father released his letter telling the country and the world of his illness. She delves into her memories to touch her father again, to hear his voice, to keep alive the years she had with him.