Jeff Porter - Planet Claire: Suite for Cello and Sad-Eyed Lovers
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The second installment in Ann Hoods Gracie Belle imprint challenges the traditional solemnity that characterizes nonfiction books of grief, loss, and sorrow.
Few readers will fail to be gripped by this tragically common story about death and what comes after for those left behind...A haunting and thought-provoking consideration of death and how utterly it rips apart our lives.
Kirkus Reviews, Starred review
Porter has written a memoir about the year after [Claire] died, a year he spent grieving and grappling with how to live and how to remember.
Talk of Iowa
An inherently absorbing, thoughtful and thought-provoking read, Planet Claire: Suite for Cello and Sad-Eyed Lovers is laced with unexpectedly effective blend of humor and heartbreak, love and loss, that is as intimately personal as it is recognizably universal.
Midwest Book Review
Through his turmoil and grief, readers are plunged into 274 pages of Porters past and present, and through space as he navigates what he calls Planet Claire. The piece beautifully describes what his life with her was like and what it will be like with her not there.
Daily Iowan
In elegiac prose, the bereft Porter grieves by reminiscing about the life [he and Claire] shared together...Porters memoir is a wistful, often painful, but beautifully written account of the trauma of grief, and also embodies the way writing provides solace from the bleak absurdities of life.
Booklist
[A] warmly rich, wholly enveloping and vividly ambient memoir.
Exclusive Magazine
A searing account of love lost.
MuggleNet
Jeff Porter has given us an incredibly warm, rich, vivid memoir, a love letter to his deceased wife and an autobiography of love attained and lost. When a person dies a world passes away, yet Porter has created a cabinet of wonders out of a thousand bits of the world that vanished when his wife died. The sentences are sharp and surprising, perfectly formed, by turns painful, funny, haunting, and inevitably right.
Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone
Jeff Porter indelibly conjures his lost, beloved Claire in a spiral galaxy of memory, while offering the story of a delicious marriage in prose that is elegiac but also gorgeous, funny, and endearingly modest.
Honor Moore, author of The Bishops Daughter
Planet Claire is the story of the untimely death of the authors wife and his candid account of the following year of madness and grief. As his life unravels, Porter analyzes his sadness with growing interest. He talks to Claire as if to evoke a presence, to mark a space for memory. He reports on his daily walks and shares observations of lifes sadness, while reminiscing about various moments in their life together. Like Orpheus, the author searches for a lost love, and what he finds is not the dog of doom but flashes of an intimate symmetry that brighten the darkest places of sorrow.
The second title from Ann Hoods Gracie Belle imprint, Planet Claire takes readers on a journey of sorrow that recalls memorable works by C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed), Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking), and Julian Barnes (Levels of Life). Porters memoir, however, is also playful, quirky, and self-ironic in a way that challenges the genres traditional solemnity. Like the novel Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter, this is an unpredictably funny account of heartbreak, as if to say theres something about the magnitude of loss that...
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