| Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir Contributor(s): Lenney, Dinah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803232675 ISBN-13: 9780803232679 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.3" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nelson Gross led an outsized life--one in which he played many roles: father, brother, husband, politician, entrepreneur. When he was killed by a couple of teenagers in a botched abduction and robbery, the murder shook his family in predictable and terrible ways. For his daughter, Dinah Lenney, parent of her own young children, the loss sparked a self-reckoning that led to this book, which is both a meditation on grief and a coming-of-age story. By turns funny and sad, frustrating and fulfilling, her candid memoir conducts readers through marriage and divorce, blended and broken families--and, finally, the kinds of conflict that infect the best of us under even the best of circumstances. In the end, Lenney leaves us with the sense that in spite of extraordinary events--as with most families--it is mutual forgiveness and love that lead us to empathy, acceptance, and the will to carry on. |