The Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Idealized Caregiver in Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilych 2. Caregivers as Prisoners For Life in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome 3. Unmasking the Caregiver in Ingmar Bergman's Persona 4. The Caregiver as Matchmaker in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over The Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away From Her 5. Caregiving Strategies For Survival in John Bayley's Elegy For Iris, Iris And Her Friends, and Widower's House 6. A Few True Things About Caregiving in Anna Quindlen's One True Thing 7. The Avenging Caregiver in Mary Gordon's Circling My Mother 8. Murderous Caregiving in Michael Haneke's Amour 9. The Divine Gift Of Caregiving in Walter Mosley's The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey 10. Caregiving as a Progress Narrative in Margaret Morganroth Gullette's Writings 11. Caregivers Struggling to Make the Right Decisions in Atul Gawande's Being Mortal Conclusion: Caregiving: A Beautiful Story? Works Cited Index