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The Iceberg

Marion Coutts

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#1170 of 3,809 books · #423 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2016) and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2014).

The Iceberg won the Wellcome Book Prize and was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Biography Award. In 2008, Tom Lubbock, the chief art critic for The Independent was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The Iceberg is his wife, Marion Coutts', fierce, exquisite account of the two years leading up to his death. In spare, breathtaking prose, Coutts conveys the intolerable and, alongside their two-year-old son Ev—whose language is developing as Tom's is disappearing—Marion and Tom lovingly weather the storm together. In short bursts of exquisitely textured prose, The Iceberg becomes a singular work of art and an uplifting and universal story of endurance in the face of loss.

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Publisher
Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN-13
9780802190529
Topics
Grief and lossTerminal illnessFamily and caregiving

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