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Title: The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents by Alexander Levy ISBN: 0-7382-0361-0 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is simply a wonderful book.
Comment: If you think you need "something," you need this book. I found no platitudes here.
I read straight through over about two weeks -- there's too much to think about to read it in one or two sittings -- and I underlined passages that seemed particularly meaningful or insightful. Several times I cried.
Now I'll go over the underlined parts and think about them. And then I'll read the book again, but slowly. Each chapter starts with a poem written by somebody like "us." Poetry so perfectly puts emotions into words and I found pieces of myself and my feelings over and over again.
I found out why some things have worked so well for me, things that I did intuitively. Others have done similar things. I've made some mistakes. Others have made the same mistakes. I'm uniquely myself, but so much like everyone else.
I'm very grateful to Mr. Levy. I'm very grateful that this book was waiting for me. I'm very grateful that I found it. And it's a keeper.
Rating: 5
Summary: I give this book to friends
Comment: By the time you finish reading this deeply personal book (the first time through) you will think that Dr. Levy wrote it just for you. You will understand why you feel so bad, why you STILL feel so bad, and why that's OK. It is beautifuly written, and its prose is deceptively simple and straightforward. I have purchased about 10 copies and given them, as the need arises, to friends with the suggestion that they pass the book along to others. I am buying more today. I may not know what to say to someone when a parent dies, but Dr. Levy does.
Rating: 1
Summary: Book for people with old age parents dying
Comment: I didn't find the book very helpful. I think it is intended for middle aged people with families of their own who lose OLD age parents. It was mostly one mans view of losing his parents. I lost both my parents when they were middle aged and I was in my 20s and 30s, and I wasn't married and didn't have children. Thus the feelings are different than losing old parents which is more of a natural trangression. I have read other books which are more helpful and give the viewpoint of other people, especially those losing parents before they had lived a full life
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Title: Midlife Orphan: Facing Life's Changes Now That Your Parents Are Gone by Jane Brooks ISBN: 0425166937 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults by Edward Myers ISBN: 0140262318 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Nobody's Child Anymore: Grieving, Caring and Comforting When Parents Die by Barbara Bartocci ISBN: 1893732215 Publisher: Sorin Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Losing Your Parents, Finding Yourself:The Defining Turning Point of Adult Life by Victoria Secunda ISBN: 078688651X Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 25 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Motherless Daughters : The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman ISBN: 0385314388 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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