No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743203143 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 174 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Los Alamos said Very sensitive description of the final days of Anne Morrow. Very sensitive description of the final days of Anne Morrow flew with her husband Charles Lindbergh.Anne had a difficult life,and deserves to be remembered for the part she played in the early days of aviation.. C. Sartory said Good read. Well written. Tough to read sometimes but comforting to know the process and that others go through the dame process.. An open account of a private and confusing time This is a touching memoir of the time when Reeve Lindbergh was helping to take care of her aging mother, the famous Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the last year(s) of her life. This book is a look inside the private lives of a very well known family during a difficult transition in their lives.The story is about how Reeve is
Lindbergh was in her nineties and had been rendered nearly speechless years earlier by a series of small strokes that also left her frail and dependent on others for her care. Mrs. As an accomplished author who had learned to write in part by reading her mother's many books, Reeve was deeply saddened and frustrated by her inability to communicate with her mother, a woman long recognized in her family and throughout the world as a gifted communicator. Reeve writes with great sensitivity and sympathy for her mother's plight, while also analyzing her own conflicting feelings. Anyone who has had to care for an elderly parent disabled by Alzheimer's or stroke will understand immediately the heartache and angu
Yet it's not necessary to know anything about Anne's writing or Charles's exploits as an aviator to be moved by No More Words, which chronicles a day-to-day drama of worry, guilt, anger, and unexpected joy that will be familiar to anyone who has cared for an elderly, ailing parent. She traces that process in spare, eloquent prose complemented by excerpts from her mother's works: "It was very important to me that her writing voice, too, should be heard," Reeve states. Her daughter's tender account of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's final 22 months is a fitting epitaph for an author who revealed her inner life with an honesty and sensitivity that have inspired generations of readers since Gift from the Sea was first published in 1955. "From the beginning of my life," she writes, "everything I understood was made plain to me in her language. at ea