Victories Never Last Audiobook Libro.fm

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In any time of disruption or grief many of us seek guidance in the work of great writers who endured similar circumstances During the first year of the COVID19 pandemic historian and biographer Robert Zaretsky did the same while also working as a volunteer in a nursing home in south Texas In Victories Never Last Zaretsky weaves his reflections on the pandemic siege of his nursing home with the testimony of six writers on their own times of plague Thucydides Marcus Aurelius Michel de Montaigne Daniel Defoe Mary Shelley and Albert Camus whose novel The Plague provides the title of this book

Zaretsky delves into these writers to uncover lessons that can provide deeper insight into our pandemic era At the same time he goes beyond the literature to invoke his own experience of the tragedy that enveloped his Texas nursing home one which first took the form of chronic loneliness and then inevitably the deaths of many residents whom we come to know through Zaretskys stories In doing so Zaretsky shows the power of great literature to connect directly to ones own life in a different moment and time

For all of us still struggling to comprehend this pandemic and its toll this book serves as a thoughtful and downtoearth guide to the many ways we can come to know and make peace with human suffering