Last Writes

'Richardson has always written masterful prose and poetry but nothing quite as compelling as Last Writes. When writing about dying, authors find it tempting to slip into flowery prose and attempt to evoke pathos from the readers, but not Richardson. The prose in this daybook is direct, matter of fact, and to the point while all along opening new vistas, evoking powerful feelings, and making the reader feel as if she were ""there.""...Who should read this book? Everyone. I plan to use it in my seminars on death and dying, but this book is not just about death and dying. It is a book about friendship and the work it takes to keep a friendship alive in the face of death. Most of all, this is a book about what it means to be a sensitive person and to witness the slow decline of a friend and try to hold on to that friend, and that friendship, despite the sorrow and the hurt, to the very end.' Andrea Fontana, Symbolic Interaction