The iceberg, a memoir, Marion Coutts
Type
Label
The iceberg, a memoir, Marion Coutts
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The iceberg
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Marion Coutts
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The tumor was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. He died early in 2011. Marion Coutts was his wife. In short bursts of beautiful, textured prose, Coutts describes the 18 months leading up to her partner's death. This book is an account of a family unit, man, woman, young child, under assault, and how the three of them fought to keep it intact. Written with extraordinary narrative force and power, The Iceberg is almost shocking in its rawness. It charts the deterioration of Tom's speech even as it records the developing language of his child. Fury, selfishness, grief, indignity, and impotence are all examined and brought to light. Yet out of this comes a rare story about belonging, an "adventure of being and dying." This book is a celebration of each other, friends, family, art, work, love, and language
Target audience
adult
Classification
Contributor
Creator
Subject
- Terminally ill + Family relationships -- Case studies
- Electronic books
- Coutts, Marion -- Family
- Loss (Psychology)
- Lubbock, Tom, 1957-2011 -- Death and burial
- Wives -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Brain + Cancer + Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Terminally ill -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Bereavement
- Art critics -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Artists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Content
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject11
- Terminally ill + Family relationships -- Case studies
- Electronic books
- Coutts, Marion -- Family
- Loss (Psychology)
- Lubbock, Tom, 1957-2011 -- Death and burial
- Wives -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Brain + Cancer + Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Terminally ill -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Bereavement
- Art critics -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Artists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Content1
- Author1