In the Air of an Afternoon Almost Past
A Memoir of Loss
$33.74
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2023
Summary
These events, foretold, are of forty years ago. They were a surreal blur then and remain so. A fever dream that was tragically real. Even with the clarity of time, there is only distance. And the need to understand. I suppose it is a long overdue, long goodbye.
Grief is a great theme of our times and this is a memoir of grief in action.
On the tempest-tossed afternoon of 9 July 1982, Pan Am flight 759 crashed into a suburb of New Orleans shortly after takeoff. Eight people on …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743059944 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743059949 |
| Author: | Peter Goers |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 154g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 210mm x 141mm |
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Critics Review
“This small book covers such an extensive cultural swathe. Just count its hashtags: #family #aircrash #panam #flight759 #australia #adelaide #suburbia #usa #neworleans #airdisaster #trauma #bereavement #compensation #nextofkin #lawyers #coverup #dentistry #drugs #religion #theatre #friendship #photography #media #holidays #smoking #incineration #funeral #grief #loss #mourning…” Samela Harris, InReview
About The Author
Peter Goers
South Australia’s own Peter Goers is a reformed social irritant. Since 1971 he has worked as actor, director, designer, critic, academic and entertainer on two continents. He began writing for the Advertiser in 1985 and has contributed a weekly opinion column in the Sunday Mail since 1991. Peter Goers has won eleven awards as presenter, since 2003, of the Evening Show on ABC Radio Adelaide, across South Australia and into the Silver City of Broken Hill, and in 2013 he was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the arts, community and public broadcasting.
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