A01=Michel Rostain
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Author_Michel Rostain
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France
grief and survival
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heart-breaking
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life and death
literary fiction
losing a child
loss
Maggie O'Farrell
Mark Sullivan
meningitis
Mitch Albom
moving
original
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painful
personal
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Rachel Joyce
Rachel Marks
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softlaunch
sorrow
Product details
- ISBN 9780755390816
- Weight: 173g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2014
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Selected for the Waterstones Eleven list for 2013.
We first meet Michel eleven days after the death of his son Lion. Lion was lost, suddenly, to a virulent strain of meningitis and it's left his father and entire family reeling. We join Michel on his personal journey through grief, but the twist that makes the journey truly remarkable, and tips this true story into fiction, is the fact that we see it all through Lion's eyes.
In a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, THE SON tackles the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways. Michel Rostain resolutely ducks away from sentimentality and pathos, and tells his story instead with wit, wisdom and vitality. For this is not a book about death; it's a book about life.
Michel Rostain lives in Arles. Born in 1942, he works as an opera stage director, and directed the National Theatre of Quimper - Cornwall Theatre - from 1995 to 2008
