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Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End

Soep, Lissa

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismDeath & Dying

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 195411835X
ISBN13: 9781954118355
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: Apr 16 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

What if the great love of your life is friendship?

In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend forged deep friendships with two other couples--Mercy and Christine; and Emily and Jonnie--until, decades later, Jonnie died suddenly, in an accident, and Christine passed away after a mysterious illness. Christine had been a writer, Jonnie a storyteller. Lissa couldn't imagine a world without their letters, postcards, texts--a world without their voices. Then she found comfort in a surprising place. As a graduate student, she had studied the philosophy of the Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, who wrote about the many voices that can echo through a single person's speech. Suddenly, Bakhtin's theory that our language is filled to overflowing with other people's words came to life. Lissa began hearing Jonnie and Christine when least expected. In a conversation with Emily, a familiar phrase was spoken, and suddenly, there was Jonnie, with his riotous laugh, vibrant in her mind. Mercy recited an Adrienne Rich poem in just the way Christine used to and, for a moment, Christine was with them in the room.

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