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Author Addison, Susan, 1948-

Title Mother lode : stories of home life and home death / Susan Addison
Published ST Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2001

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 W'PONDS  994.304092 Add/Mls  AVAILABLE
Description 314 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Summary Susan Addison has written this collection of stories after the death of her teenage son from cancer. She draws on a rich mother lode of common human experience of love, loss and grief, to help us view death as an acceptable part of living, where memories and pain are shared, and laughter is never far away
Analysis Coping with grief/loss (Australia ) Sociology: death & suicide
Notes Linocut illustrations by Rex Addison
Steele Rudd Award, 2002
Subject Addison, Susan, 1948-
Addison, Susan.
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.
Children -- Death -- Anecdotes.
Death -- Anecdotes.
Death.
Grief.
Autobiography.
Mothers and sons -- Australia -- Biography.
Parents -- Death.
Teenagers -- Death.
SUBJECT Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Queensland -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Author Addison, Rex
LC no. 2001430474
ISBN 0702231916