Widower of mesothelioma victim writes account of loneliness
Thomas Dumm, who teaches at Massachusett’s Amherst College, has explored what loneliness means in our lives in his new book Loneliness as a Way of Life. After having lost his own wife to pleural mesothelioma not so long ago, his own life provides powerful source material for his analysis.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s book reviewer, the most powerful explorations come when Mr. Dumm describes the experience of living through his wife’s mesothelioma diagnosis and treatment with her, while intense surgical and medical intervention extended her life by four and a half years. Some of his revelries will bring images that anyone having gone through a final illness might recognize—the medical equipment and supplies mixed haphazardly with the stuff of ordinary life until all of it becomes ordinary after all.
For the full review, go to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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