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The rainbow comes and goes, a mother and son on life, love, and loss, Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt

eng

collective biography

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

The rainbow comes and goes

945660361

Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt

a mother and son on life, love, and loss

Correspondence between the CNN journalist and his celebrated mother, exchanged in the aftermath of the latter's brief illness, shares a rare window into their relationship and the life lessons imparted by an aging mother to her adult sonCooper's intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS' 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, they began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before, a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives, the things that matter to them, and what they still want to learn about each other

Mother and son on life, love, and loss