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Hello,
I'm looking for any novels, modern ones would be best, where the main subject is grief and the reactions to it. Any of you knowledgeable book types out there got any suggestions?
Ta

― Weekly Weekly, Monday, 24 March 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't really read very many books, but Dave Eggers "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" comes to mind. It's this guy who's parents died within two weeks of each other - hilarity ensues. Really.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Was About Schmidt based on a novel? I think it was, but can't remember who by. The film is great.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 March 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Phil-two speaks the truth ruth.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not really a novel, but CS Lewis's 'A Grief Observed' is dizzingly good, I think. I have never been badly bereaved, but Lewis is such a tirelessly talented descriptor of trains of anguished thought that I was completely drawn into his experience.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I've just read 'Dirt Music' by Tim Winton, an Australian writer, which is all about grief

You can read abou it here

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm reading one at the moment, Stay by Nicole Griffith. It's kind of a thriller with a strong grief-stricken female American Norwegian protaganist.

― terabithian, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

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