Behind the Wall
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Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron
There is a subculture in our society that is only experienced by women who are suddenly identified by society as a widow. Women don't know it is there before they are in it. Society is not aware the way they interact with, speak to, listen to, and consider widows is different from the way they engaged with these women when their husband's were alive. There is also very little understanding of what that kind of loss looks like on a day to day basis or the ways in which society makes it more difficult. It is not that people are thoughtless; it is just that they are thought - less. They don't think about what they say, how they react, what they do or don't do or what they think should be happening. This book is a journey in that new world as taken by an independent, self-sufficient, caring, bright woman upon the death of the husband she had loved for almost fifty years. It is a look into a world that is foreign to all of us but one in which all of us traffic often. Take time to discover the Signposts of the Journey both for your future reference and to support you as you support the women in your life who are also on this journey.
COLIN THUBRON is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East -- Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road (all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060972561 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060972564 |
| Titel | Behind the Wall |
| Autor | Colin Thubron |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Harper Perennial |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1989-09-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 306 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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