The Three of Us

A Family Story

Hardcover, 320 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2008 by Pantheon.

ISBN:
978-0-375-42474-8
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OCLC Number:
184982451

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This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her confidante, and eventually as her deadly sexual rival. After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each would become her lover. When one of the lodgers started an affair with Julia, Rosalie was devastated; when he later committed suicide, the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocable.Or so it seems until the spring of 1999, when Rosalie, diagnosed with leukemia, came to live with Julia for the last month of her life. At last the spell was broken, and they were able to talk with an ease they had never known …

2 editions

Subjects

  • Personal Memoirs
  • Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • 20th century
  • Authors, English
  • Biography
  • Children of alcoholics
  • Children of authors
  • England
  • Family relationships
  • Biography/Autobiography