Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
By Mark Doty
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About this ebook
From diagnosis to the initial signs of deterioration to the heartbreaking hour when Wally is released from his body's ruined vessel, Heaven's Coastis an intimate chronicle of love, its hardships, and its innumerable gifts. We witness Doty's passage through the deepest phase of grief -- letting his lover go while keeping him firmly alive in memory and heart -- and, eventually beyond, to the slow reawakening of the possibilities of pleasure. Part memoir, part journal, part elegy for a life of rare communication and beauty, Heaven's Coast evinces the same stunning honesty, resplendent descriptive power and rapt attention to the physical landscape that has won Doty's poetry such attention and acclaim.
Mark Doty
Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.
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Reviews for Heaven's Coast
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hard to read, and hard to put down.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5There is nothing wrong with the book, or memoir, but it is all me. I went in to it not knowing what it was or who it was written by, and there is no fault there but my own. I can say nothing more.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's been years since I read this book, and I still remember how beautiful it was.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A meditation on death that brims with life. A book about being gay in America that a rabbi could love (well, a reform rabbi). A prayer and a dance. A long, dark journey. A place in my heart.