The Glory Walk: A Memoir

By Cathryn E. Smith

By a daughter whose father died of Alzheimer's disease, this memoir uses conversations, poems, letters, and creative imaginings and effectively echoes the unpredictable progression of the disease. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889242179
• ISBN13: 9781889242170
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publishers: Vanderwyk &amp, Burnham
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Eases the Pain

This book is an amazing gift that Cathryn Smith has given to her family as well as her readers. The Glory Walk takes us through an incredibly difficult time in our family with grace and clarity and shows us the different dimensions of this horrible disease by actually writing from the view of Alzheimers. About every couple months, when I feel the need to be closer to my father, I will re-read The Glory Walk and work through a little more of the loss and the pain I feel of my father's death. For any child that has lost a parent, especially to Alzheimers, The Glory Walk is a great comfort.

The Glory Walk....

I found this memoir to be very helpful as I deal with this disease process in a close family member and a friend. The writing style allowed me to gain perspective from the point of the patient and to gain insight into the feelings that I have associated with the person's decline. This book has given me the freedom to feel my feelings in association with the disease process and not feel guilty.

a rich, experimental way of capturing the mind of a father with Alzheimer and a family living with i

The author's poignant and powerful use of experimental prose and poetry invite her reader into her world, a world of grief, torment, and wonder, as she and her family watch and participate in losing her father to Alzheimer's. The reality of the angst and the realization of the utter helplessness are conveyed so beautifully through memory, narrative, letter writing, and music. What makes the writing so powerful, so convincing, though, is that it is often as fragmented as the mind of the Alzheimer patient. We, as readers, become one with the patient, as well as the family.

A Glorious Walk

The Glory Walk is a glorious walk through the life of man in the eyes of a daughter. Rememberances of a life lived that every reader can relate to. Reading this book will make you want to call your dad and tell him you love him. If you can't call him you will think of him with love and wish he was with you.

Of a daughter who gradually lost her father

Cathryn E. Smith's The Glory Walk is the candid memoir of a daughter who gradually lost her father to the debilitating effects of Alzheimer's disease. A moving testimony, filled with compassion and devotion, one that clearly resonates with the reader in terms of its poignancy and personal sharing, The Glory Walk is worthwhile reading and a recommended addition to community library collections.