Linda Gray Sexton: Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
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Author: Linda Gray Sexton
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Published Date: 21 Apr 2011
Publisher: COUNTERPOINT
Publication Country: Berkeley, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781582437446
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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 the 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. This beautiful new trade paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.