A Widow's Story: A Memoir (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series) - Hardcover

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The best-selling author of Sourland offers an intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of 46 years from a hospital-acquired infection and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. (biography & autobiography).

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'A deeply intimate look at the eminent author's "derangement of Widowhood"...Oates writes with gut-wrenching honesty and spares no one in ripping the illusions off the face of death' Kirkus Reviews

'Oates has created an illuminating portrait of a marriage, a searing confrontation with death, an extraordinarily forthright chronicle of mourning, and a profound "pilgrimage" from chaos to coherence ... her memoir of sudden widowhood will have an impact similar to Joan Didion's “The Year of Magical Thinking”' Booklist

Praise for Joyce Carol Oates:

‘Joyce Carol Oates is a writer who always takes your breath away’ Mail on Sunday

‘Oates is a writer of extraordinary strengths. Her great subject, naturally, is love’ Guardian

'Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist. She has a thrilling way of grasping an emotion, wasting no time and launching herself straight at the aching heart of the matter' Independent

'Oates's prose contains a deep felt rawness which hovers between hope, despair and love' Guardian

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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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  • PublisherThorndike Pr
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 1410436926
  • ISBN 13 9781410436924
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages671
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