The Resource The third and only way : reflections on staying alive, Helen Bevington
The third and only way : reflections on staying alive, Helen Bevington
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- In this autobiographical volume, the remarkable Helen Bevington looks for answers to the question of how to live or, more specifically, how to confront growing older. A familiar face on the literary landscape since the mid-1940s, Bevington contemplates the course of her own life in view of the suicide of her father, the final years her mother spent in unwilling solitude, and the tragic suicide of her son following a crippling automobile accident from which he could never
- Recover. How is one to face the inevitability of death? What is the third alternative? How to persevere in life? The unique Bevington way of autobiography recreates lessons and insights of other lives, historical figures, and compelling incidents, and combines them in a narrative that follows the emotional currents of her life. Evoking a wide range of historical and literary figures, including Chekhov, Marcus Aurelius, Flannery O'Connor, Simone de Beauvoir, Thoreau,
- Beatrix Potter, Sappho, Yeats, Alexander the Great, Montaigne, Saint Cecilia, Virginia Woolf, Liv Ullmann, and many others, Bevington finds in these lives a path that has guided her search away from solitude. Through her reflections on the ten years that followed her son's death, we become aware of how far she has traveled, how the search has brightened, how she has eloquently evolved into old age. In the end she is sitting, like the Buddha, under her own fig tree,
- Waiting not for death but for further illumination
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The third and only way : reflections on staying alive
- Title
- The third and only way
- Title remainder
- reflections on staying alive
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Bevington
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- In this autobiographical volume, the remarkable Helen Bevington looks for answers to the question of how to live or, more specifically, how to confront growing older. A familiar face on the literary landscape since the mid-1940s, Bevington contemplates the course of her own life in view of the suicide of her father, the final years her mother spent in unwilling solitude, and the tragic suicide of her son following a crippling automobile accident from which he could never
- Recover. How is one to face the inevitability of death? What is the third alternative? How to persevere in life? The unique Bevington way of autobiography recreates lessons and insights of other lives, historical figures, and compelling incidents, and combines them in a narrative that follows the emotional currents of her life. Evoking a wide range of historical and literary figures, including Chekhov, Marcus Aurelius, Flannery O'Connor, Simone de Beauvoir, Thoreau,
- Beatrix Potter, Sappho, Yeats, Alexander the Great, Montaigne, Saint Cecilia, Virginia Woolf, Liv Ullmann, and many others, Bevington finds in these lives a path that has guided her search away from solitude. Through her reflections on the ten years that followed her son's death, we become aware of how far she has traveled, how the search has brightened, how she has eloquently evolved into old age. In the end she is sitting, like the Buddha, under her own fig tree,
- Waiting not for death but for further illumination
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1906-2001
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bevington, Helen
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3503.E924
- LC item number
- Z474 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Authors, American
- Older people
- Women authors, American
- Bevington, Helen
- Label
- The third and only way : reflections on staying alive, Helen Bevington
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- volume
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 34515643
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xii, 209 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822318507
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 96014208
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- The third and only way : reflections on staying alive, Helen Bevington
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- nc
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 34515643
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xii, 209 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822318507
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 96014208
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