Letter to D : a love story / André Gorz ; translated by Julie Rose.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2009Description: 134 p., [2] leaves of plates : ports. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0745646778
- 9780745646770
- Lettre à D. English
- 306.7 GOR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 306.7 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100338509 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so begins André Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him.
As one of France's leading post-war philosophers, André Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to his dying wife.
In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. André Gorz and his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not live without one another.
An international bestseller, Letter to D is the ultimate love story - and all the more poignant because it's true.
Translation of: Lettre à D : histoire d\'un amour : récit. Paris : Galilée, 2006.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Letter to D Andr_ Gorz From the Translator
- Notes for the Reader