Thirty Days
A Journey to the End of Love
$31.39
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2017
Summary
From the author of The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Raphael Baker’s new book Thirty Days is a meditation on life, death, love, and marriage, written with an honesty that bares the souls of two people who shared their lives.
Thirty Days is a portrait of grief, of a marriage, and of a family. It is the moving memoir of Mark’s wife of 32 years, Kerryn Baker, who died ten months after her diagnosis, aged 55, from stomach cancer.
It is also a study in how we const…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925498653 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925498654 |
| Author: | Mark Raphael Baker |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 154mm x 233mm |
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Critics Review
‘A lament, a wail, a raw confession of suffering and regret, but most of all, of love.’
‘During his first thirty days of mourning, Mark Baker wrote about his wife Kerryn Baker, who lived an “ordinary” life, as most of us do, but who was extraordinary in the courage, dignity, and above all, the gentle, wise grace of her dying. Few of us will be able to die so well, but every reader of this book will be inspired to do so.
Baker recalls their life together and writes of Kerryn’s death and dying in many tones—lyrically, tenderly, with self-deprecating irony, embarrassed candour and more—but one hears in them all pain so raw and need so desperate that it sometimes threatened to unhinge him. This elegy of love and grief takes back to our hearts knowledge that is too often only in our heads—that the disappearance of a human personality will forever be mysterious to us because every human being is irreplaceable.’
– Raimond Gaita‘A lament, a wail, a raw confession of suffering and regret, but most of all, of love.’ – Ramona Koval
‘Piercing, unsparing, and sweet, this book will break your heart and put it back together again.’ – Miranda Richmond Mouillot, author of A Fifty-year Silence
A courageous and intimate portrait of a marriage that will leave you devastated, enriched, irrevocably altered.’ – Emily Bitto
‘A beautiful memoir, not just about one marriage, but the nature of marriage itself.’ * Readings *
‘A book characterised by love, empathy and connection to life.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *
‘Baker’s memoir allows his readers to see the magnitude of our existence beneath the surface of our daily lives.’ * Courier Mail *
‘Baker presents, with extraordinary openness, the vulnerable experience of early mourning. He describes his traumatic experiences with a historian’s precision, aware of the trip wires, elisions and exaggerations attending the recording of evidence.’ * Weekend Australian *
Mark Raphael Baker
Mark Raphael Baker is the author of The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory, a best-selling and seminal book on his parents’ experience during the Holocaust which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award.
He is Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne.
Mark was married for thirty-three years to Kerryn Baker, and has three adult children. He lives in Melbourne.
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