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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.927092
EAN: 9780452286870
ISBN: 0452286875
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 27, 2005
Publisher: Plume
Sales Rank: 366305
Studio: Plume
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
President Reagan’s daughter’s personal farewell to her father
In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease, saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious—a person’s memory. “Alzheimer’s,” she writes, “snips away at the threads, a slow unraveling, a steady retreat; as a witness all you can do is watch, cry, and whisper a soft stream of goodbyes.”
She writes of needing to be reunited at forty-two with her mother, of regaining what they had spent decades demolishing. A truce was necessary to bring together a splintered family, a few weeks before her father released his letter telling the country and the world of his illness. The author delves into her memories to touch her father again, to hear his voice, to keep alive the years she had with him.
Moving and honest, an illuminating portrait of grief, of a great man, a disease, and a woman and her father.
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Sad and uplifting at the same time. Patti Davis is a truly talented writer. Am looking forward to reading "Angels Don't Die" which I learned about from this book.
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This book is touching and wonderfully written. I read it slow to catch the author's undertones of disease. I wanted to hold onto everything the author experienced listening and watching her father go down his path of life. 'The Chosen Few' I have called Alzheimer victims, because they react to love. She told it in a held back way, wanting you to feel what she was feeling and I did. The love for her mother and father was beautiful and when she put on her father's shirt to be close to him, I understood ... Read More
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I have always admired Miss Davis' literary efforts, even when I recognized that she was writing to vent a great deal of anger. I was quite interested when I learned she had written about her Father's battle with Alzheimer's. This was a loving, respectful tribute to both her parents, and it gave me a sense of what this terrible disease does not only to the victim, but to the family as well. In fact, I would recommend it to anyone facing the aging and illness of a family member. It's a story of love, acceptance ... Read More
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How silly for those other reviewers to say this book didn't include "the family's experience with Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's disease." Or that the book didn't say enough about Alzeimer's itself. What do they want, a medical book? There are plenty of those. This is the unique story that only Patti, with her special place in history could tell, of how her father's disease brought her and her family tremendous pain, yet spiritual growth, and actual blessings. In so doing, she points the way to how we can continue ... Read More
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While I thought the book was well written, I was disappointed that more about the family's experience with Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's disease wasn't included. The title of the book is somewhat misleading, for that reason, in my opinion. The bulk of the book was more about the author's feelings and experiences than about her father's illness.
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