Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
by Christopher Buckley
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Author: Christopher BuckleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2010-05-13
ISBN: 0446540951
Number of pages: 251
Publisher: Twelve
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- ISBN13: 9780446540957
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
Book Review: "I Praise it, But I Can Still Critique it"
Summary: 5 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I am okay with the fact that he is still clearly not at peace with his parents despite his protestations to the contrary. The entire existence of the book indicates a lack of peace. But I'm fine with this! Where would we be memoir-wise if we only wrote when totally at peace? We'd have so little to read. What worked: he doesn't hold back. (Oh sure, he holds back on his personal life and his suspect relationships with his lovers/wife and children, but I suppose that is outside of the scope of this book. He can write those books later! Seriously.) He's quite the enjoyable narrator--funny, self-deprecating, and to the point.
What's a little painful: constant reference to "Mum" and to "Pup." For reals? Can we get some evidence to the fact that this is how he daily referred to his mom and dad? If so, fine. Unbelievably pretentious and painful, but at least he's just being accurate. The two too many references to the "Lion of the Right" doing some mundane or humiliating action. We get it. He's a titan in your eyes, and should be in ours. Glad "Christo" wrote this. Really helped me see that not all is what it appears to be. The limelight marriages are often not the perfect connections the media make them out to be. The "greats" are often terribly flawed and sadly prove to be inadequate role models, even and especially for their own children.
Summary of Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world - your typical mom and dad."As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a 55-year-old orphan. Buckley maintains his sense of humor by recalling the words of Oscar Wilde: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness."
Just as Calvin Trillin and Joan Didion gave readers solace and insight into the experience of losing a spouse,
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