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Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates's ground-breaking memoir A Widow's Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, calling it "immensely moving," "searing," "enthralling," "brave," "slyly mordant," and "astonishingly candid."
On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. In less than a week, Ray died from a hospital-acquired virulent infection--and Joyce was suddenly faced with the stunning reality of widowhood.
A Widow's Story illuminates one woman's struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century. As never before, Joyce Carol Oates shares the derangement of denial, the anguish of loss, the disorientation of the survivor amid a nightmare of "death duties," and the solace of friendship. Here is a frank acknowledgment of the widow's desperation--only gradually yielding to the recognition that "this is my life now."
Enlivened by the piercing vision, acute perception, and mordant humor that are the hallmarks of the work of Joyce Carol Oates, this moving tale of life and death, love and grief, offers a candid, never-before-glimpsed view of this acclaimed author and fiercely private woman.
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- Title A Widow's Story
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Date 2012-02
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780062020505 / 0062020501
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.29 x 1.07 in (20.37 x 13.44 x 2.72 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Bereavement, Authors, American - 20th century
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times Book Review, 04/15/2012, Page 32
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