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Holding Silvan (A Brief Life)
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Product Details
Author:
Monica Wesolowska, Erica Jong
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Catapult (March 5, 2013)
Imprint:
Hawthorne Books
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780986000713
ISBN-10:
098600071X
Weight:
8.8oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 9" x 0.55"
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RandomHouse
List Price:
$16.95
Country of Origin:
United States
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65
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36
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Overview
FOR READERS OF ONCE MORE WE SAW STARS AND WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
When her newborn son is given days to live, a mother's impossible choice becomes a searing meditation on what makes both death good and life worth living
In the opening of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for “observation” when he won't stop crying. Within days, Monica and her husband have been given the grimmest of prognoses for Silvan, and they must make a choice about his life.
The story that follows is not a story of typical maternal heroism. There is no medical miracle here. Instead, we find the strangest of hopes. Certain of her choice, Monica must still ask herself at every step if she is loving Silvan as well as a mother can. The result is a page-turning testimony to the power of love.
By raising ethical questions about how a death can be good in the age of modern medicine, Holding Silvan becomes a joyous paean to what makes life itself good. Whether you have suffered profound loss or not, this book will change your life.
When her newborn son is given days to live, a mother's impossible choice becomes a searing meditation on what makes both death good and life worth living
In the opening of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for “observation” when he won't stop crying. Within days, Monica and her husband have been given the grimmest of prognoses for Silvan, and they must make a choice about his life.
The story that follows is not a story of typical maternal heroism. There is no medical miracle here. Instead, we find the strangest of hopes. Certain of her choice, Monica must still ask herself at every step if she is loving Silvan as well as a mother can. The result is a page-turning testimony to the power of love.
By raising ethical questions about how a death can be good in the age of modern medicine, Holding Silvan becomes a joyous paean to what makes life itself good. Whether you have suffered profound loss or not, this book will change your life.
