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The End

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Overview

A lyrical, life-affirming meditation on books, grief, and the anchoring force of language

When Luke Allan's mother dies by suicide without leaving a note, language falters. Reading, once a sustaining pleasure, becomes intolerable. Grief renders absurd what was once a way to connect to the world.

What emerges from these twinned absences is less a search for the right words than a recalibrated way of attending to the language and silences that shape a life. In The End, Allan's inability to read becomes not a failure to find meaning in books but a turning toward what they describe: the world and the people in it.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780063494077
  • ISBN-10: 0063494078
  • Publisher: Ecco Press
  • Publish Date: March 2027
  • Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.65 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Page Count: 160

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