{"product_id":"the-long-goodbye-memories-of-my-father-paperback","title":"The Long Goodbye: Memories of My Father - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatti Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Genuine and heartfelt.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Reagan's daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer's disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this moving and illuminating portrait of a woman and her father, Patti Davis describes saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious--a person's memory. \"Alzheimer's,\" she writes, \"snips away at the threads, a slow unraveling, a steady retreat; as a witness all you can do is watch, cry, and whisper a soft stream of goodbyes.\" She writes of needing to be reunited at forty-two with her mother, of regaining what they had spent decades demolishing. A truce was necessary to bring together a splintered family, a few weeks before her father released his letter telling the country and the world of his illness. She delves into her memories to touch her father again, to hear his voice, to keep alive the years she had with him.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatti Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Way I See It \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAngels Don't Die.\u003c\/i\u003e Her articles have appeared in many magazines and newspapers, among them \u003ci\u003eTime, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, Town \u0026amp; Country, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 7.9 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46616538841273,"sku":"9780452286870","price":42.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/ODqizr1bRJ9780452286870.webp?v=1782824951","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/the-long-goodbye-memories-of-my-father-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}