Onlyness
Exploring the Predicament of the Only Child
Published on 15. October 2019
128 pages
978-1-912387-70-0 (ISBN)
Description
What is the true effect of being an only child? Is it a curse or a blessing, a joy or a challenge? Beginning with a researched account of what makes an only child, from isolation and bullying to self-confidence and resourcefulness, John Killick here traces the development of individuals who at one point in their life, whether temporarily or permanently, have experienced being an only child. Focusing on personal life as well as roles and relationships in the wider world, Killick expresses his own experience of being an Only through narrative as well as memories and dreams. Onlyness is a unique and stimulating exploration of a predicament that faces a growing number of people in the UK, in a time where there are now more one-child families than not.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: An Objective View
- Part Two: A Personal Story
- The Childhood Challenge
- Only
- One Morning
- The Brother
- A Grandfather
- The Big House
- The Wave
- The Gate
- The Gate (later)
- The Scourge of School
- Picked On
- Three Teachers
- Conflict
- A Place Apart
- Interrogation
- Sex and Onlyness
- Behind the Net
- Aunt Mabel
- Smoking with Susie
- Dream: Skyscape with Figure
- Breakdown
- Away Again
- Dream: Stop the Carousel!
- The Consultation
- Night at Llangunllo Halt
- Eddies of Nanuto
- Teaching Saves
- The Pupils
- The Girls
- Sandra
- Jackson's Due
- Supply
- Dream: The Face
- Service and Sympathy
- Being of Service
- Seeing the Light
- Learning to Love
- Music's Messages
- A Musical Conversion
- Dream: The Concert
- Tallin '97
- Improvisation
- Leos and Me
- Musica Callada
- The Power of Words
- Literature Like Life
- Dream: A Visit From George
- Don Quixote Drowned
- To North
- Anglezarke
- The Parental Pull
- My Late Father
- Searching for a Grave
- Dream: River
- Onlyness and Ageing
- A Shared Miracle
- A Challenge
- Glimpses
- A Sufficiency
- Ian and Me-ness
- Approaching the Mystery
- The Barrier
- The Point
- Dream: Finding My Way
- Towards the End
- Secret Psyche
- A Burial
- My Secret Valley
- Dream: Last Laugh
- Creators and Inheritors
- Last Sounds
- Dream: Check-Out
- Postscript
