At the Still Point: A Memoir

by Carol Buckley

Book Overview

Chronicling her role as the youngest of ten children, Carol Buckley shares stories about her brother William F. Buckley, Jr., the sudden deaths of her two sisters, her unhappy marriage, and her fight... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684802171
• ISBN13: 9780684802176
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Courageous, sensitive and truthful.

Carol the youngest of 10 children of the famous Buckley family has given us a detail look at what happens to one's inner self when one is not given the freedom to become whom God intended. We are not to become replicas of our mother, father, siblings. As a young child, Carol was not given the proper attention by the persons that she needed it from the most, her immediate family. She was well taken care of by her "nanny", cook, chauffeur etc. but she so desperately needed her family.Carol has given us in her autobiography an account of the past 55 years of her life. Her 2 marriages that both ended in divorce, her special relationship with her sister Maureen and Maureen's untimely death that brought to surface Carol's many deep rooted emotions.Carol gives us the details of how she overcame deep depression, suicidal tendencies and more importantly how she came "to the still point" of her being and how that "moment" changed her being forever.

It was both interesting and moving

I can relate to her childhood feelings of loneliness and isolation because I was also born the last child from a large family; and I can see how she allowed her childhood to shape her detrimental adulthood.