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The Resource The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying, Nina Riggs
The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying, Nina Riggs
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The item The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying, Nina Riggs represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying, Nina Riggs represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Starred reviews from * Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * Most Anticipated Summer Reading Selection by * The Washington Post * Glamour * The Seattle Times * Bookpage.com * Bookriot.com * Real Simple * The Atlanta Journal-Constitution * An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other." Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer--one small spot. Within a year, the mother of two sons, ages seven and nine, and married sixteen years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal. How does one live each day, "unattached to outcome"? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nina Riggs's breathtaking memoir continues the urgent conversation that Paul Kalanithi began in his gorgeous When Breath Becomes Air. She asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time? Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and deeply moving, The Bright Hour is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and it's about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Nina's other muse, Montaigne, can be a balm and a form of prayer. It's a book about looking death squarely in the face and saying "this is what will be." Especially poignant in these uncertain times, The Bright Hour urges us to live well and not lose sight of what makes us human: love, art, music, words
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 34 min., 51 sec.))
- Isbn
- 9781508241430
- Label
- The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying
- Title
- The bright hour
- Title remainder
- a memoir of living and dying
- Statement of responsibility
- Nina Riggs
- Subject
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
- Breast -- Cancer | Patients -- United States -- Biography
- Death
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Downloadable audio books
- Life
- Mothers -- United States -- Biography
- Riggs, Nina
- Riggs, Nina -- Philosophy
- Audiobooks
- Women poets, American -- Biography
- Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Starred reviews from * Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * Most Anticipated Summer Reading Selection by * The Washington Post * Glamour * The Seattle Times * Bookpage.com * Bookriot.com * Real Simple * The Atlanta Journal-Constitution * An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other." Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer--one small spot. Within a year, the mother of two sons, ages seven and nine, and married sixteen years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal. How does one live each day, "unattached to outcome"? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nina Riggs's breathtaking memoir continues the urgent conversation that Paul Kalanithi began in his gorgeous When Breath Becomes Air. She asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time? Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and deeply moving, The Bright Hour is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and it's about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Nina's other muse, Montaigne, can be a balm and a form of prayer. It's a book about looking death squarely in the face and saying "this is what will be." Especially poignant in these uncertain times, The Bright Hour urges us to live well and not lose sight of what makes us human: love, art, music, words
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Riggs, Nina
- Dewey number
- 362.19699/4490092
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- RC280.B8
- LC item number
- R5355 2017ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- autobiography
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Cassandra Campbell
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Campbell, Cassandra
- Heyborne, Kirby
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Riggs, Nina
- Riggs, Nina
- Breast
- Terminally ill
- Death
- Life
- Death
- Mothers
- Women poets, American
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying, Nina Riggs
- Link
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
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- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn989516725
- Dimensions
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- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 34 min., 51 sec.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781508241430
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- Stock number
- B8C655D7-21C8-45BC-A297-16012BA0E0FC
- System control number
- (OCoLC)989516725
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying, Nina Riggs
- Link
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn989516725
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 34 min., 51 sec.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781508241430
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- Stock number
- B8C655D7-21C8-45BC-A297-16012BA0E0FC
- System control number
- (OCoLC)989516725
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
- Breast -- Cancer | Patients -- United States -- Biography
- Death
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Downloadable audio books
- Life
- Mothers -- United States -- Biography
- Riggs, Nina
- Riggs, Nina -- Philosophy
- Audiobooks
- Women poets, American -- Biography
- Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
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