| Author | Antonella Gambotto-Burke |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Broken Ankle Books |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Paperback and, in translation, Hardback). Ebook released in 2013. |
| Pages | 205 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-9751075-1-8 (first edition, paperback) |
| 828/.9203 22 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.4.G36 Z465 2003 |
| Preceded by | The Pure Weight of the Heart |
| Followed by | MOUTH |
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (ISBN 0-9751075-1-8) is Antonella Gambotto-Burke's first memoir and fourth book. The narrative details her response to the death of her ex-fiancé, the notorious American-born British GQ editor Michael VerMeulen, and to her younger brother Gianluca's 2001 suicide, and led to Gambotto-Burke being featured on the cover of The Weekend Australian review section.[1]
In 2023, poet Kimmo Leijala wrote of the Finnish edition, "At times, The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide reads like a strict, even self-critical monologue involving reflection and existential questions ... [Gambotto-Burke]'s use of language reads like poetry at times, drawing the reader in. At other times, her prose makes my heart pound ... this is a book everyone should read. As the back cover says, it's 'the most important book ever written about loss'."[2]
The Eclipse has been published in four languages.