The Book of Malcolm : My Son's Life with Schizophrenia
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1459749561
ISBN-13
9781459749566
Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd
Imprint
Dundurn Group Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 31st, 2022
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
256 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.50 x 1.60 cms
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A memoir of a family’s resilience and its odyssey through the medical system, and an attempt to give dignity and meaning to a life cut mysteriously short. Fraser Sutherland, the late Canadian poet, wrote this memoir after his son, Malcolm, died suddenly at twenty-six after having suffered from schizophrenia.
A father reflects on the rich life of his son, who died suddenly at twenty-six after living with schizophrenia.
On the morning of Boxing Day 2009, the poet Fraser Sutherland and his wife found their son, Malcolm, dead in his bedroom in their house. He was twenty-six and had died from a seizure of unknown cause. Malcolm had been living with schizophrenia since the age of seventeen.
Frasers respectful narration of Malcolms life his happiness as well as his sufferings, his heroic efforts to calm his troubled mind, his readings, his writings, his experiments with religious thought is a master writers attempt to give shape and dignity to his sons life, to memorialize it as more than an illness. And in writing about his sons life, Fraser creates his own self-effacing memoir the memoir of a parents resilience through years of stressful care.
Fraser Sutherland, one of Canadas finest poetry critics and essayists, died shortly after completing this book.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
On the morning of Boxing Day 2009, the poet Fraser Sutherland and his wife found their son, Malcolm, dead in his bedroom in their house. He was twenty-six and had died from a seizure of unknown cause. Malcolm had been living with schizophrenia since the age of seventeen.
Frasers respectful narration of Malcolms life his happiness as well as his sufferings, his heroic efforts to calm his troubled mind, his readings, his writings, his experiments with religious thought is a master writers attempt to give shape and dignity to his sons life, to memorialize it as more than an illness. And in writing about his sons life, Fraser creates his own self-effacing memoir the memoir of a parents resilience through years of stressful care.
Fraser Sutherland, one of Canadas finest poetry critics and essayists, died shortly after completing this book.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
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