A comment on two recent threads: Sorrow and Books!
I have just finished reading a beautiful and very moving book about a
daughter coming to terms with the suicide of her father. "You Cant
Catch Death" is by Ianthe Brautigan, the daughter of the once very
popular American writer Richard Brautigan who ended his life by
suicide in 1984. Her writing, uncluttered and imbued with a steadfast
love for her father, gives her sorrow and quest for understanding a
positive power that can deeply affect the reader.
I came to the book as a fan of Richard Brautigans writing. I love his
gentle, surreal humour and the apparent simplicity that often masks
complex observations on the human condition. I finished Ianthes
memoir feeling I had been allowed a much more personal insight into
this complicated and troubled human being.
Sire of Sorrow, indeed, and a book I can highly recommend.
John (in Sydney)
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