A Year and a Day edition by Michael Corrigan Religion Spirituality eBooks
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A Year and a Day is a journal of grief kept for a year and a day after I lost my wife suddenly. It is meant to help others who have suffered a grievous loss.
A Year and a Day edition by Michael Corrigan Religion Spirituality eBooks
Michael Corrigan's newly published Kindle books are 2011 editions of his "minor cult classic" (as I seem to recall someone writing) of a fictionalized memoir Confessions of a Shanty Irishman, and his more recent and wholly un-fictional memoir A Year and a Day: Journal of Grief, inspired (if that is the word) by the sudden death of the love of his life Karen, his wife of too few years.Confessions of a Shanty Irishman begins with a charming portrait of the grandparents who helped his dad to raise him and of his growing disenchantment, after their death, with both his now-and-again present mother and the rigors and hypocrisies of a Jesuit schooling; and later of his intellectual and sexual adventures through the `60s, as well as his drinking troubles and passing activism during the California campus troubles of that revolutionary era. It ends appropriately enough with his settling down and marrying his beloved Karen, which marked an end to the years of dissipation and malaise.
A Year and a Day is an invaluable record of loss that might be read profitably by anyone facing such a crisis. It begins with this very appropriate epigraph, from Samuel Beckett: "I can't go on, I'll go on"; the book's great strength is that, rather than press any one-size-fits-all self-help solution to grief, it simply shows - with brutal and cleansing honesty - the slow progress, over the Irish people's traditional year and a day of mourning, of a particular man and a particular grief.
Here is an excerpt from Confessions of a Shanty Irishman: "On the way home, Grandfather described the three breeds of Irishmen: Lace Curtain for the well off, Shanty Irish for the working class, and the extremely rich Micks called Two Toilet Irish.
"`We won't ever have two toilets in our house,' he said, `unless you make a killing in vaudeville. We're shanty Irish. The neighbor woman used to look down on me when I came home covered with tar, but whose door was she knockin' on when her lawyer husband needed a blood transfusion? Mine! Never gave blood in me life, but I did. I guess I wasn't so Shanty then.'"
I should also mention Michael's collection of stories, These Precious Hours, which is presently being serialized at The Scream Online . I have fond memories of editing three or four of these fabulous pieces for publication at New Works Review. Mark them in your agenda book as essential reads! (The book is also available in a 2010 Kindle edition and in a new audio version.)
Brett Alan Sanders, Aug. 14, 2012
(reprinted from blog at [...])
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A Year and a Day edition by Michael Corrigan Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
Michael Corrigan personifies the romanticized vision of what an Irishman should be musical, humorous, a gifted performer and wordsmith, blessed by the blarney stone and the love of his life. The last thing he expected was to lose his adoring wife, an accomplished professional and beautiful, compassionate woman whose "bright light was blown out forever."
When Karen Lea Smith Corrigan died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm in September 2005, life as he knew it ended. The day of her death he prays for lightning to strike and incinerate him. When that relief does not come, he continues as a grieving ghost -- stunned, numb, shattered, separated from reality, and alone in his grief. From that awful beginning of life without Karen, he embarks on a year and a day of traditional Irish mourning. His existence without her is all raw nerve endings and aches and pains. Somehow, he survives the early days of her loss. Corrigan returns to teaching at the University. He sees a grief therapist and begins a journal in hopes of helping others cope with such awful loss. With compelling honesty, he questions her death and struggles with memories
"I wish her soul would return on All Souls Day, or any time. I would tell her I loved her and probably should have said it more often... She often mentioned that others admired her work and I think she expected me to say, 'Yes, you are the consummate professional.' I did believe that but never felt the need to say it. She didn't need validation for her gifts, or so I thought. Perhaps that was a mistake. After such sudden death, there is that 'What if?' syndrome and the nagging question Why didn't I praise her more or tell her the truth -- that I worshipped her this side of idolatry?
If at some time I found the ability to stare into the seeds of time and saw what was about to happen, I would have withheld nothing. Could any intervention have saved her? There is the possibility that Karen's fatal condition was inevitable...but knowing that any second could be our last together might have shaped how we lived."
You'll find no meaningless buzz words here, like "closure" or "healing" and no empty platitudes. Corrigan faces his losses head on and claws his way through because he believes his life with Karen is worth the grief. Each day is a struggle, a battle to celebrate her life and survive her death. This journal is Michael Corrigan's attempt to honor Karen's memory with his honest sharing of grief. Anniversaries, holidays, remembered rituals and joys, pain, regret, and panic are all laid out truthfully in a way he hopes will help others suffering from loss. Highly recommended to all adult readers, especially those reeling from the loss of someone they love.
This is a great book. It is a well written and honest account of what a man went through after the tragic and unexpected death of his wife. It is not often that men write so openly about their grief. It is a good read and very helpful to those who have experienced similar tragedy.
Michael Corrigan's newly published books are 2011 editions of his "minor cult classic" (as I seem to recall someone writing) of a fictionalized memoir Confessions of a Shanty Irishman, and his more recent and wholly un-fictional memoir A Year and a Day Journal of Grief, inspired (if that is the word) by the sudden death of the love of his life Karen, his wife of too few years.
Confessions of a Shanty Irishman begins with a charming portrait of the grandparents who helped his dad to raise him and of his growing disenchantment, after their death, with both his now-and-again present mother and the rigors and hypocrisies of a Jesuit schooling; and later of his intellectual and sexual adventures through the `60s, as well as his drinking troubles and passing activism during the California campus troubles of that revolutionary era. It ends appropriately enough with his settling down and marrying his beloved Karen, which marked an end to the years of dissipation and malaise.
A Year and a Day is an invaluable record of loss that might be read profitably by anyone facing such a crisis. It begins with this very appropriate epigraph, from Samuel Beckett "I can't go on, I'll go on"; the book's great strength is that, rather than press any one-size-fits-all self-help solution to grief, it simply shows - with brutal and cleansing honesty - the slow progress, over the Irish people's traditional year and a day of mourning, of a particular man and a particular grief.
Here is an excerpt from Confessions of a Shanty Irishman "On the way home, Grandfather described the three breeds of Irishmen Lace Curtain for the well off, Shanty Irish for the working class, and the extremely rich Micks called Two Toilet Irish.
"`We won't ever have two toilets in our house,' he said, `unless you make a killing in vaudeville. We're shanty Irish. The neighbor woman used to look down on me when I came home covered with tar, but whose door was she knockin' on when her lawyer husband needed a blood transfusion? Mine! Never gave blood in me life, but I did. I guess I wasn't so Shanty then.'"
I should also mention Michael's collection of stories, These Precious Hours, which is presently being serialized at The Scream Online . I have fond memories of editing three or four of these fabulous pieces for publication at New Works Review. Mark them in your agenda book as essential reads! (The book is also available in a 2010 edition and in a new audio version.)
Brett Alan Sanders, Aug. 14, 2012
(reprinted from blog at [...])
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