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"A
PROFOUNDLY IMPORTANT book, filled with WISE
insight. When my own father dies, I think I will refer to
it like a Bible."
– Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys
"A
RICHLY IMAGINATIVE and innovative work.... an invaluable
PIONEERING contribution
that will help so many of us."
– Earl Grollman, author of Living When a Loved One
Has Died
"GREAT
BOOK! Timely and touching. And the good news is you've
never read one like it."
– John Lee, author of The Flying Boy
"More
USEFUL than the warm-fuzzies, more
ACCESSIBLE than the mytho-poetic,
Chethik's text examines the everyday dynamics between sons and
fathers, love and loss. These are difficult frontiers. Chethik
proves an able guide. We are the better for it."
– Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking
ABOUT
FATHERLOSS
FatherLoss:
How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms With the Deaths of Their
Dads is the first-of-its kind study of men's anxieties
about and responses to the deaths of their fathers. Men are
often expected to respond to loss with emotional strength
and presence of mind. Double standards continue to exist between
women, who are expected to grieve openly, and men, who are
not.
FatherLoss
offers portraits of John F. Kennedy, Jr., Michael Jordan,
Ernest Hemingway, and other well-known men, focusing on how
they came to terms with the deaths of their fathers. But at
the heart of the book are the experiences of 376 men whom
journalist Neil Chethik surveyed in more than three years
of research on the subject. Chethik tells us:
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how
a son can prepare for the loss of his father
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specific
strategies for coping in the period immediately following
the death
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the role that women can play in helping men through
such a loss
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four specific styles of men's grieving
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how
children, young adults, middle-aged men, and older men
react differently to a father's death
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how fathers can help prepare a son for their own death
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Neil Chethik
was the author of a highly popular syndicated column called
VoiceMale from 1992-96. The idea for FatherLoss arose from
a column Chethik published in 1995, to which reader response
was enormous. His audience, it seemed, needed a forum in which
to explore their experiences and hear from other men who were
experiencing the same event. Surprisingly enough, this is
the first, and thus far only, book to specifically address
how sons deal with the death of the most influential man in
their lives.
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