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Book Description: Left Coast Press Inc. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend, Laurel Richardson, Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic writing, kept a daybook, relating their conversations and interactions over Betty's last few months. Rich in memory, emotion, dreams, and life-and-death decisions, the daybook chronicles the ups and down of a terminally ill woman and the impact that illness has on friends, colleagues, and family alike. Richardson also grapples with the ethics of writing deeply personal narratives. Part memoir, part sociological analysis, part eulogy to a departed friend, Richardson opens a poignant window into living an academic life, and ending it. Bookseller Inventory # B9781598741865

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Book Description: Left Coast Press. Book Condition: New. Brand NEW unread book. Hard cover bound book. Bookseller Inventory # 9781598741865

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Book Description: Left Coast Press Inc, United States, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic writing, kept a daybook, relating their conversations and interactions over Bettyas last few months. Rich in memory, emotion, dreams, and life-and-death decisions, the daybook chronicles the ups and down of a terminally ill woman and the impact that illness has on friends, colleagues, and family alike. Richardson also grapples with the ethics of writing deeply personal narratives. Part memoir, part sociological analysis, part eulogy to a departed friend, Richardson opens a poignant window into living an academic life, and ending it. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9781598741865

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Book Description: Left Coast Press Inc, Walnut Creek, 2007. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # 6617123

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Book Description: Left Coast Pr, 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 176 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __1598741861

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