Gail caldwell and caroline knapp author of drinking. A book of such crystalline truth that it makes the heart ache. New york times bestseller they met over their dogs. Does it reflect the nature of the friendship itself. Take the long way home is a dark tale of struggle and an epic journey, of love, life, religion, friendship, and humanity. I hated this book, for anyone who has ever been traumatized as a kid or adult using anything religious then you might want to avoid this one. Although the subtitle of lets take the long way home is a memoir of friendship, this book is really a love story from one friend to another, from one companion to the companion who has been suddenly taken away. It says a lot for lets take the long way home, gail caldwells ferociously anguished chronicle of her best friends terminal cancer, that it manages to be, among many other things, a. I loved the warmth of gail caldwells writing style and how she expresses such honest feelings in lucid prose. Looking at mm as a mannered genre, then, take the long way home is not mm, because it catchesits designed to catcha particular messy, wet, uncomfortable sense of lived life, that is not patently false, but instead twists the story back into reality and out through the other side, where the words hook and spear the ugliness of life, and in that ugliness dwell moments of the sublime. Lets take the long way home doesnt have a memoirs traditional, chronological narrative structure. Take the long way home captures deborahs turbulent travels through the menopause in a way that resonated strongly. For all those who are fans of the rapture, tribulation or the left behind seriesmovieswhatever, then this is right up your alley.
A love story became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to their relationships with men. Take the long way home live in montreal, a musical dvd by roger hodgson. A memoir of friendship paperback august 9, 2011 by gail caldwell author. Like half a million other nonnative combatants fighting for uncle sam in the war to end all wars, laskins dozenthree jews, four italians. A long way home is saroo brierleys personal account of finding himself tragically lost from his family at the young age of 5 years old. Author gail caldwell has fashioned an unparalleled homage to friendship in the pulitzer prizewinning lets take the long way home, an. Take the long way home roger hodgson supertramp writer. The entire storyline takes place within one night, and those left behind, with a few exceptions, waste no time turning into absolute savages. Lets take the long way home is a celebration of the profound transformations. Author brian keenes long out of print novella, take the long way home, is now available in paperback from deadite press. Lets take the long way home is a book that will work its way into your heart in ways few books ever will. Happily retired in the village of three pines, armand gamache, former chief inspector of homicide with the surete du quebec, has found a peace hed only imagined possible. The obvious, both books feature cutters who have i loved this.
Take the long way home by brian keene is a novella featuring a personal pov of the rapture. The sadness the main character feels is understandable and easy to sympathize with on top of the strangeness of everything that occurs. From the moment the book begins you know that gail caldwells long time friend, author caroline knapp, wont. Take the long way home gives you an inside glimpse into what life is like for a drug addict. Long way home disambiguation this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title take the long way home. Billionaire harold hopewell traveled the world, encountering. Susan gordon lydon takes you thru her 25 years struggle with addiction. How do you think this contributes to the effect and emotional impact of the book overall. In lets take the long way home, pulitzer prizewinn. Welcome to the taking the long way home running book club. In addition to take the long way home, roger also gave us timeless classics such as give a little bit, breakfast in america, the logical song, dreamer, school, its raining again, fools. Through the 1970s and 80s, lydon suffered an addiction to drugs, a journey detailed in her 1993 memoir take the long way home. Taking the long way home is a participant in the amazon services llc associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to.
Take the long way home is the not quite so fucked up literary little brother of a little life. Lets take the long way home having just lost my best friend to cancer, i found this book to mirror many of my own feelings and experiences. I loved this little book and found it to not only be satisfying in a horror sort of way, but also strongly emotional. In the later part of the 80s, she developed a passion for knitting, which became the subject of two nonfiction works. A memoir of gail caldwells friendship with caroline knapp, and an anguished chronicle of knapps death from cancer. And you dont have to read the selection of the month if it doesnt.
An apocalyptic story that takes place over one long day is chock full of ideas about the end of times. Memoirist and former boston globe book critic gail caldwell reads from her memoir, let. When lonely days turn to lonely nights you take a trip to the city lights and take the long way. His journey back to his birth mother 25 years later is a truly amazing story. In lets take the long way home, pulitzer prizewinning author gail caldwell offers a powerful and moving memoir about her comingofage in midlife and her extraordinary friendship with caroline knapp, the author of drinking.
A love story became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history. The text was initially released in australia on 24 june 20 via viking, then rereleased internationally in 2014, and adapted into a major film in 2016. Well i stumbled in the darkness im lost and alone though i said id go before us and show the way back home. This book will have you in shock if you never been exposed to drugs, as the author describes in vivid details what it felt like to try cocaine for the first time.
A long way home summary from litcharts the creators of sparknotes. In the long way home, journalist david laskin sets out to tell the stories of 12 immigrant men who served in the u. Reading this book validated what i was going through and brought me a sense of comfort. An autobiographical account of his experiences, a long way home, was published in 20 in australia, released internationally in 2014, and adapted into the 2016 film lion, starring sunny pawar and dev patel as saroo, and nicole kidman as his adoptive mother, sue brierley. A long way home is a nonfiction book by indianaustralian businessman saroo brierley written together with larry buttrose. Take the long way home written and composed by roger. Lets take the long way home left me intensely movedcaldwells greatest achievement is to rise above death and loss to describe both the very best that women can be together and the precious things they can, if they wish, give back to. A long way home summary from litcharts the creators of. In death, he is giving back, leaving an unusual will filled with lifealtering bequests to the people he met along the way. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the. Walking the woods of new england and rowing on the charles river, these two. Lets take the long way home is a celebration of life and of the transformations that come from intimate connectionand it affirms, once again, why gail caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices. Lydon and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.