A Mother's Story (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783818866 ISBN 13: 9780783818863

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Looking back on her own traumatic childhood and the early death of her husband, the author discusses her anguish over the suicide of her twenty-four-year-old son and her struggle to cope with the pain and grief over the death of her child

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Review:

In 1988, Gloria Vanderbilt's 23-year-old son Carter committed suicide. As Vanderbilt looked on, Carter swung away from the terrace wall of her 14th-floor New York apartment and, in Vanderbilt's words, "He let go." In this poignant memoir, Vanderbilt reflects on her own painful history and what she describes as "the final loss, the fatal loss that stripped me bare." She thought, she says, that she could not survive the death of her son. This memoir is a testimony to her courage and her own return to life.

From the Inside Flap:

day in 1988, Carter Cooper, aged 24, dropped to his death from the 14th-floor terrace of his mother's New York City's apartment. Now, seven years later, Gloria Vanderbilt is finally able to set down the terrible events of that afternoon--to which she was a witness--in a book of overwhleming intensity, feeling, and beauty.

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0783818866
• ISBN 13: 9780783818863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 241