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A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice

by Richard Russo

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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand. These writers recount intensely personal and profoundly moving end-of-life accounts that cover a wide spectrum of human experience. All six authors are donating their royalties to a Maine hospice; Down East will also donate 10 percent of proceeds to the same cause.
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Pat Shannon, April 22, 2008 (view all comments by Pat Shannon)
This is a perfect little book. Small in size, elegantly illustrated and beautifully written. Each of the stories provides a glimpse into terrible loss and the beginning of hope. My favorite story is the one by Wesley McNair, who begins with lines from John Keats: "Do you not see how necessary a world of pain and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? .... I will call the human heart the hornbook used in that school."

A Healing Touch... is the book to give a friend whose mother is descending into the wildness of dementia; the co-worker who has lost a son in Iraq; the neighbor whose baby will never leave the hospital. And it is a book to keep for yourself. You will need these words of comfort and wisdom; perhaps not today, but someday.

Although I usually flinch at titles that include the words "true stories", these stories are indeed true and I thank the authors for sharing them.

It is worth noting that the authors are donating all of their royalties to the Waterville area hospice in Maine and that the publisher is donating a percentage of profits to hospice as well.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780892727513
Subtitle:
True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice
Author:
Russo, Richard
Other:
Beckman, Siri
Publisher:
Down East Books
Subject:
Healing
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Terminally ill
Subject:
Terminal care
Subject:
Hospice Care
Publication Date:
April 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
186
Dimensions:
7 x 4.5 in
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