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Works by
Alexander Renault
(Writer)
AlexanderRenault@earthlink.net
http://www.alexanderrenault.com/
Profile created
April 21, 2004
Search Amazon for Alexander Renault Death -- Erotica -- Gay --
Literature & Fiction -- Psychology & Mental Health
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Alexander Renault is the pen name for a writer who has
published in multiple genres. He has worked in the mental health and drug and
alcohol fields for the past fifteen years. His erotica has appeared online at
Mind Caviar, Ophelia’s Muse, Velvet Mafia, and Scarlet Letters. -- from
Saints & Sinners
Walking Higher: Gay Men Write about the Death of Their Mothers
(2004), Alexander Renault, ed.
Walking Higher is a tribute both to motherhood and
to memory as it reaches across varying cultural boundaries in its honest
exploration of the experience of loss and bereavement. Although focusing
on the unique bond between mother and gay son, this collection is for
everyone who has lost somebody he or she either chose to or was bound by
duty to love and care for and who may even now be experiencing the loved
one’s terminal illness.
Writers from all over the U.S. and Canada, and one from Ireland, are
gathered in this anthology to pay homage to their late mothers. Walking
Higher not only explores the pain of separation but also boldly confronts
the universality of human loss and illness, existential angst, and
questions regarding religious faith. Not necessarily a "politically
correct" offering, this collection does not don rose-colored glasses in an
attempt to sentimentalize death and dying. Many diverse issues are
explored, including families dealing with alcoholism, emotional
abandonment, mental illness, catastrophic illness, and some writers have
experienced the death of their mothers at an incredibly young age and
spent a good portion of the rest of their lives trying to understand the
impact.
Walking Higher is not always a stroll through a rose garden because
writers also explore the Sturm und Drang of both their internal struggles
and clashes with family members. However, this collection also captures
many of the special memories, the timeless adoration of the child for the
mother, and never forgets to celebrate the power of maternal love and
influence.
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