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Entferner: A Memoir von Andrew Meredith (2014, Hardcover)
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1476761213
ISBN-13
9781476761213
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175786663
Product Key Features
Book Title
Removers : a Memoir
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Death & Dying, Personal Memoirs, Men's Studies, General, Literary
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-045780
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
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You might be forgiven, at first, if you believe that the book in your hands is about creatures from another planet (We are nobodies. We are men made to be forgotten. We are paid to be invisible.). Prepare yourself--as you wander more deeply into this brightly-lit, finely wrought nightmare, the mirrors start appearing. Sex and death might propel the story forward, but by the end Andrew Meredith peals back the night to reveal what we are made of. The removers are not only among us, they are us. A tour-de-force whispered from the shadows., This memoir is much more alive than the bodies it describes-rich in language and delicate in its portrayal of a son who suddenly sees his father as imperfect yet irredeemably human., Andrew Meredith writes with the eye of a poet and the heart of a man transformed. The Removers brims with moments of unforgettable beauty and raw honesty., Powerful...Meredith writes with plainspoken grace and easy humor... Meredith meditates on failure and family with an honesty so raw it's almost painful. What makes this memoir ultimately rewarding is its steadfast testimony of Meredith's progress toward becoming the kind of man he wants to be. , Flawless... With its lyrical language and strong sense of place The Removers is rollicking fun, even when what it's describing is ghastly - and with its East Coast-gothic backdrop, it practically begs to be translated into a film., The Removers is for anyone whose adolescence has taken too long, whose hands need useful work, or who wants to put his family grudges away and get on with the rewards of adult life-such as the wicked laughs and the sweet, tender, singing prose of this wonderful book., Mr. Meredith knows how to make sentences and how to put them in service of paragraphs that broaden the emotional register of his narrative. The reader is edged, inevitably, up and back between the good laugh and good cry by his artful prose.... debut more worthy than most., The Removers is angry and forgiving, sometimes hideous, tough, emotionally compelling, and important. Andrew Meredith comes of age, struggles, and survives in the disintegrating blue-collar environs of Philadelphia. This book can unlock doors. Get your hands on it right away., The Removers is for anyone whose adolescence has taken too long, whose hands need useful work, or who wants to put his family grudges away and get on with the rewards of adult life--such as the wicked laughs and the sweet, tender, singing prose of this wonderful book., Poignant...bittersweet, but also frequently, improbably hilarious...This book will ring true to anyone who ever yearned to grow up, only to find that coming of age is more painful and beautiful than they ever imagined., "This book is good . It's also gruesome, wryly humorous, beautiful and horrible, all at the same time.... So wrapped up was I in this book at that point that I realized I'd been holding my breath. That's a sure sign of a good read and a good reason to look for this memoir. For anyone who relishes a shadowy coming-of-age story, "The Removers" is one you won't be able to remove from your hands.", This memoir is much more alive than the bodies it describes--rich in language and delicate in its portrayal of a son who suddenly sees his father as imperfect yet irredeemably human., You might be forgiven, at first, if you believe that the book in your hands is about creatures from another planet (We are nobodies. We are men made to be forgotten. We are paid to be invisible.). Prepare yourself-as you wander more deeply into this brightly-lit, finely wrought nightmare, the mirrors start appearing. Sex and death might propel the story forward, but by the end Andrew Meredith peals back the night to reveal what we are made of. The removers are not only among us, they are us. A tour-de-force whispered from the shadows., Meredith's memoir of how his life was affected by his father's transgression is itself poetic, and he tucks his bittersweet childhood memories between tales of removals as carefully as the death certificates he slips between the bodies he picks up and the stretcher-like contraption that transports each body to the waiting vehicle.
Dewey Decimal
920.09748/11
Synopsis
A dark, poignant, and emotionally brave coming-of-age memoir: the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living. For almost twenty years I mistook my father's downfall as my own. But it wasn't. It was not my sister's either, nor my mother's. A literature professor at La Salle University, Andrew Meredith's father was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It's a transgression Andrew cannot forgive, for it brought about long-lasting familial despair. In the wake of the scandal, Andrew's parents limp along, trapped in an unhappy marriage. Meanwhile, Andrew treads water, stuck in a kind of suspended adolescence--falling in and out of school, moving blindly from one half-hearted relationship to the next, slowly killing the nights drinking beer and listening to music with his childhood friends. Broke, Andrew moves back home to his childhood neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia and takes a job alongside his father as a "remover," the name for those unseen, unsung workers who take away the bodies of those who die at home. He describes, as only a professional can do, the intimate, horrific, poignant, and occasionally morbidly comedic aspects of handling the dead. Just how do you carry a 500-pound corpse down winding stairs? What actually happens to pacemakers, tooth fillings, surgical screws, artificial hips, and anything else that the deceased has within his or her body? Andrew begins to see his father not through the lens of a wronged and resentful child, but as a sympathetic, imperfect man who loves his family despite his flaws. Eventually the chip on his shoulder starts to lose its weight. Poetic without being florid, and with the literary ability to transform the naturally grotesque into the exquisite, The Removers is a searing story of a young man who finds in death a redemptive path toward the forgiveness of the living, including himself.
LC Classification Number
CT275.M4923A3 2014
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