Cover Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant ?
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant ?

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant ?

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BD de Roz Chast · 3 juillet 2014

Résumé : In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the "crazy closet"--with predictable results--the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed.
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Un livre très vivant sur la fin de vie et les personnes très âgées...

Un roman graphique gai, émouvant, ironique, drôle sur un thème éprouvant, lugubre, angoissant : le grand âge et la fin de vie . Roz Chast raconte, en dessins et en photographies, le parcours de la fin de vie de ses parents, George et Elizabeth, dont elle est fille unique. Tout est vécu dans ce...

le 6 avr. 2015