{"product_id":"how-linda-died-frank-davey-9781550224979","title":"How Linda Died: Better Living Through Graffiti \u0026 Train Hopping","description":"A husband's unflinching account of his wife's unravelling. \u003ci\u003eHow Linda Died\u003c\/i\u003e is Frank Davey's powerful and painfully precise account of his wife's fight against an inoperable brain tumor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLinda's proud refusal to tell anyone about her deteriorating condition left Frank with few people to confide in. As Linda's mind fell victim to cancer, Frank took to recording his memories with increasingly compulsive and private intensity. He found himself reckoning with the demons of a past that Linda could no longer share and mourning the loss of a present she could no longer enjoy. At the same time, he found himself reflecting on the habits, rituals, and diversions that punctuated his life. How could he reconcile his passion for showing prize-winning Great Danes with's debilitating illness? How could he talk about the great wines he loved or the fabulous coq au vin they had shared right after he talked about the clinical details of her approaching death or her bizarre behaviour? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat makes this book so special -- and in many ways so brilliantly odd -- is the life-defining contrasts it records, often in a single breath. At once a shattering portrayal of a devastating disease and an obsessive record of one man's self-interrogation amidst a welter of conflicting emotions, \u003ci\u003eHow Linda Died\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping memoir, beautiful in its morbidity and searing in its relentless refusal to sidestep the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Davey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550224972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550224979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ECW Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.00w x 0.85d","brand":"Frank Davey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48439748296959,"sku":"9781550224979","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2aa0cdd-740b-4223-8127-2144b03f5b29.jpg?v=1777179153","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-linda-died-frank-davey-9781550224979","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}