Eleanor Cooney's Books
Feb.03.2004
When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair.
But the coping...
About Eleanor
My most recent book is the nonfiction memoir DEATH IN SLOW MOTION (HarperCollins, 2004), which grew out of a Harper's magazine folio piece (Oct., 2001) of the same title. The book got great reviews, the kind of reviews I hungered for, most of them praising...
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