Searching for Mercy Street : my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton /
Sexton, Linda Gray, 1953-
Searching for Mercy Street : my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton / Linda Gray Sexton. - 325 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321).
The letter -- In exile -- First metaphors -- A maker of myths -- More than myself -- Companionship -- Live or die -- Independence -- The making of a literary executor -- The rowing endeth -- Afterward -- Self-portrait -- Between two worlds -- In search of a biographer -- Call me mother -- Exposures -- On the back of love -- The starting point -- Mercy Street.
An honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and her daughter she left behind when she committed suicide. Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life. Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine--and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood.
9781582437446 1582437440
2013474280
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 --Family.
Sexton, Linda Gray, 1953- --Family.
Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
Poets, American--Family relationships.--20th century
Mothers and daughters--United States.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Searching for Mercy Street : my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton / Linda Gray Sexton. - 325 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321).
The letter -- In exile -- First metaphors -- A maker of myths -- More than myself -- Companionship -- Live or die -- Independence -- The making of a literary executor -- The rowing endeth -- Afterward -- Self-portrait -- Between two worlds -- In search of a biographer -- Call me mother -- Exposures -- On the back of love -- The starting point -- Mercy Street.
An honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and her daughter she left behind when she committed suicide. Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life. Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine--and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood.
9781582437446 1582437440
2013474280
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 --Family.
Sexton, Linda Gray, 1953- --Family.
Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
Poets, American--Family relationships.--20th century
Mothers and daughters--United States.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.