Dying A Memoir
- 6 Jul 2017
- 9781782119784
- £9.99
- 160 pp
- 129×198mm
- 3 Nov 2016
- 9781782119777
- £7.99
- 160 pp
In a few words
Written in the final months of her life, Cory Taylor’s Dying is a deeply moving meditation on death, and a joyful and wise tribute to life
In a few words
A deeply moving meditation on dying, and a joyful and wise tribute to life, shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize
Unsparing in its insights and observations, breathtaking in its courage and generosity. A thing of lightness and beauty
Serves as a reminder, amid the omnishambles of today's world, that life is transient and death final . . . Her luminous voice, touching on the fragility of life, the randomness of death . . . is one worth listening to
Unsparing in its insights and observations, breathtaking in its courage and generosity. A thing of lightness and beauty
Serves as a reminder, amid the omnishambles of today's world, that life is transient and death final . . . Her luminous voice, touching on the fragility of life, the randomness of death . . . is one worth listening to
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZE
In the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of those she had lost. Dying is about vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, and anger. It is also about the acceptance that it takes to live a good life and say goodbye to it in peace.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZE
In the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of those she had lost. Dying is about vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, and anger. It is also about the acceptance that it takes to live a good life and say goodbye to it in peace.
An unflinching exploration into the experience, culture and language of dying . . . There is courage in abundance here. She looked death in the eye and, in her final months, produced a work that will help the rest of us approach our own demise with greater understanding, integrity and insight
The book rings louder in my imagination the more time I spend apart from it . . . Taylor's prose is clear and direct, with flashes of surpassing loveliness . . . it has a startling offhand grace
A manual for the discussion of death, full of wisdom, vulnerability and reassurance . . . For all of Cory Taylor's acceptance of the inevitable, Dying contains a will to live on, and a conviction that for as long as we are remembered, we remain present
Lucid, precise, unsentimental prose . . . its clear-sighted compassion might have something to teach any mortal
An unflinching exploration into the experience, culture and language of dying . . . There is courage in abundance here. She looked death in the eye and, in her final months, produced a work that will help the rest of us approach our own demise with greater understanding, integrity and insight
The book rings louder in my imagination the more time I spend apart from it . . . Taylor's prose is clear and direct, with flashes of surpassing loveliness . . . it has a startling offhand grace
A manual for the discussion of death, full of wisdom, vulnerability and reassurance . . . For all of Cory Taylor's acceptance of the inevitable, Dying contains a will to live on, and a conviction that for as long as we are remembered, we remain present
Lucid, precise, unsentimental prose . . . its clear-sighted compassion might have something to teach any mortal
Cory Taylor
View profileCory Taylor is the author of two celebrated novels: Me and Mr Booker, which was a regional winner in the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and My Beautiful Enemy which in 2014 was shortlisted for Australia’s premier prize for fiction, the Miles Franklin Award. She died in July 2016. In 2017, Dying was shortlisted for the Stella Prize.
Cory Taylor
View profileCory Taylor is the author of two celebrated novels: Me and Mr Booker, which was a regional winner in the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and My Beautiful Enemy which in 2014 was shortlisted for Australia’s premier prize for fiction, the Miles Franklin Award. She died in July 2016. In 2017, Dying was shortlisted for the Stella Prize.
