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Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love Paperback – September 19, 2019
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‘The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it every day.’
After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and superstition in which sanity felt elusive. The dead of prior generations loomed large and haunting. Then, too, the cultural and political moment seemed to collude with her condition: everywhere people were dislocated and angry.
In this electrifying and brave examination of an ordinary enough death and its aftermath, Appignanesi uses all her evocative and analytic powers to scrutinize her own and our society’s experience of grieving, the effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our lives.
With searing honesty, lashed by humour, she navigates us onto the terrain of childhood, the way it forms our feelings of love and hate, and steers us towards a less tumultuous version of the everyday.
This book may be short, but life, death, madness, love, and grandchildren, are all there – seen through the eyes of a writer who is ever aware of the historical and current vagaries of woman’s condition.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication dateSeptember 19, 2019
- Dimensions5.08 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches
- ISBN-10000830033X
- ISBN-13978-0008300333
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- Publisher : Fourth Estate (September 19, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 000830033X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0008300333
- Item Weight : 7.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.08 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,398,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9,966 in Grief & Bereavement
- #19,588 in Author Biographies
- #153,358 in Parenting & Relationships (Books)
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About the author

Lisa Appignanesi is the author of several critically acclaimed and prizewinning books on the history of madness and mind-doctoring, on women and on Freud, including Mad, Bad and Sad, Freud's Women (with John Forrester),Trials of Passion and Simone de Beauvoir. She has also written fiction such as The Memory Man and the thrillers Dead of Winter and Sanctuary; and much cited memoir, Losing the Dead and most recently Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love. She has written for the New York Review of Books, The Guardian and The Observer. She is a former President of English PEN, chair of the Freud Museum, London, and the Royal Society of Literature.
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