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Nothing Was the Same

A Memoir

by Kay Redfield Jamison
Renée Raudman
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Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with characteristic honesty, she describes his slow surrender to cancer, her own struggle with overpowering grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.


Jamison also recalls the joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving—if troubled on occasion by her manic depression—as Jamison reveals the ways in which Richard taught her to live fully through his courage and grace.


A penetrating study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, Nothing Was the Same is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.

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  • Release date

    September 29, 2009

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      • ISBN: 9781400193066
      • File size: 157737 KB
      • Duration: 05:28:37

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Renée Raudman's narration is full of wistfulness as she delivers Jamison's memoir recounting the illness and death of her husband, Richard Wyatt. Raudman's voice lifts in lighter moments of remembering their relationship--Richard's devotion to managing Jamison's bipolar condition, his dedication to studying schizophrenia, and moments together such as the happy evening they watched a spectacular meteor shower. Raudman captures the couple's hopes and fears as they confront Richard's progressing Hodgkin's disease and the acute despair and longing Jamison describes immediately following his death. As Jamison begins to heal, she mixes poetry and science to explain the differences between grief and depression, as she experiences them. Raudman portrays the wonder of Jamison's return to life through writing and her realization that the ephemeral quality of life is what makes it so glorious. S.W. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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