Forty Years in the Closet: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1481739336 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"In or out of the closet, Parkinson's people need partners" according to cgw. It takes a brave person to reveal their true selves in an intimate and open memoir. It takes a brave person to deal with Parkinson's with humor and honesty. And it takes a brave and loyal partner to face a difficult future together with love and equanimity. Christopher Duane has written a remarkable book that flows back and forth between his current and past challenges with an ease of thought that is so di. A must-read An intimate and moving portrait of what it's like to live with Parkinson's Disease. In moving prose, the author conveys not just the daily details of the disease but also its heavy emotional toll. Yet through it all, he and his partner, his primary caregiver, conjure the fortitude and love to keep on, cherishing every moment together despite ever-increasing difficulties. For anyone learning to cope with Pa
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It may be inspirational knowing he survives this trek. It is a quilt; a faded tapestry; reminding you of times past; memories that run together, clouding the truth. Having worn edges and faded colored threads, they seem to disappear from the fabric of reality. Amidst all the gory wit and sarcasm, he survives the Sixties and the Sergeant family saga.. Each essay in this collection is not a chapter. As with the stories in the section titled, Illness and Healing, they follow Chris tripping along the road, kicking and screaming learning the truth about himself. The stories are all basically true, yet I will admit are prone at times to the whims of fiction and the fancies of exaggeration. The narrative is often amusing, and yet poignant. The patchwork construction of this book is not necessarily in order of theme or in order of time. They are told by Christopher Sergeant, about his family and his travails of "Forty Year
Last summer he was published three times. Sampson has earned a BA and MFA from the University of Southern California Chris resides by the beach in Delaware with his partner of twenty years, Jeff and their dog, Jesse. Turning sixty this past year, there was a bell ringing, a clarion call warning me that time is moving on. Sampson started writing narrative non-fiction essays in the fall of 2011 when a friend of his was dying and in a lot of pain. Writing about his own experience, he realized that he might have a talent. Prime Mincer, Cactus Heart, and Gambling the Aisle found him worthy of their journals, including him in the company of some great new American authors Over the last year he has written over twenty essays about his trials and travails trying to face up to the reality that he is a gay man; always was and always will be homosexual. Mr.