Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, and Meditations

by Dewitt Henry

Book Overview

Against a background of suburban Philadelphia in the 1950s, and the family secret of his father's alcoholism, Henry comes of age as the youngest of four children. He rejects his father's course in managing the family chocolate factory, and goes on to college, becoming a writer and teacher. When Henry marries, and becomes a father himself, he is impacted by the social revolutions of the 1970s, and struggles to avoid his father's flaws. He leads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597091006
• ISBN13: 9781597091008
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"