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Perdita by Dylan Riley is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Perdita about?

An intense literary memoir of love and grief “Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are the miraculous product of this beautiful, rather crazy, and all too brief love affair.” When Dylan Riley received the devastating news that his wife, Emanuela, had cancer, he turned to writing to express the anguish and disarray brought by her worsening symptoms and then her passing. Perdita , composed for their teenage son, Eamon, is the result of this attempt to represent loss. It is at once a portrait of youth, a lyrical memoir of a marriage, and a raw and moving account of bereavement. Riley describes cancer, Perdita ’s central antagonist, as a pitiless opponent, draining hope of its power and reducing it to self-delusion. Its course forces a progressive foreshortening of time. Next year might be terrible, but there can be a few good months now; tomorrow will likely be bad, but let’s...

Who reads Perdita?

Author

Dylan Riley

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781804296110

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.63 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14