9780877459712-0877459711-Letters to Kate: Life after Life (Sightline Books)

Letters to Kate: Life after Life (Sightline Books)

ISBN-13: 9780877459712
ISBN-10: 0877459711
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC
Author: Carl H. Klaus
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Format: Hardcover 190 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780877459712
ISBN-10: 0877459711
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC
Author: Carl H. Klaus
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Format: Hardcover 190 pages

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Letters to Kate: Life after Life (Sightline Books) (ISBN-13: 9780877459712 and ISBN-10: 0877459711), written by authors Carl H. Klaus, was published by University Of Iowa Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Letters to Kate: Life after Life (Sightline Books) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Sorrow is “not a state but a process” that needs “not a map but a history. . . . There is something new to be chronicled every day,” writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. When Carl Klaus's wife of thirty-five years died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, right before Thanksgiving in 2002, he took the only road toward recovery that made sense to him: he started writing letters to her, producing a unique history of grief, solace, and love. His vivid and thoughtful letters will resonate with everyone whose loss confronts them with emotional, psychological, and philosophical questions for which there are no easy answers.During his first year without Kate, Carl writes himself into the life that comes after the life he loved. From days of grief in the darkness of a midwestern winter, to springtime, with a return to life in the garden and a memorial service for Kate on a sunny afternoon, to fall, with a pilgrimage to their favorite vacation spot in Hawaii, Carl documents his year-long experience of remembering, meditating, and evolving a new life. Individually his letters provide the insights of a master diarist; collectively, they have the arc of a master essayist. Recording the full range of mourning from intense shock to moments of exceptional affirmation, Klaus's stories and reflections on loss bear witness to universal truths about the first and most significant year of mourning.

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