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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child

byLaura Cumming

Laura Cumming uses Five Days Gone to investigate the Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child through a carefully framed biographical portrait. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the wider field of biography & autobiography. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781501198717