Color Is the Suffering of Light: A Memoir

by Melissa Green

Book Overview

An acclaimed poet's memoir is a portrait of a young girl searching for meaning and beauty in a world of suffocating mother love, spiritual and physical poverty, alcoholism, and despair--with nature... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393036502
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Well written, insightful and disturbing

A well-written, harrowing account of growing up amid dysfunction, and specifically, of being saved from a total death of the spirit by a rich protective inner life. Parts of this account are indulgent and perhaps even a little precious in its notion of being "saved" by words and the imagination, but nevertheless this is an absorbing book as well as a quiet and thoroughgoing indictment of the neglectful abuse that exists in many, many households, and as described here, will strike an emotional chord in many readers, as it did for me.