Epilogue
a memoir
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2008 - Harper, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
53,500 words, Guess
Page Count
214 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveepiloguememoir00roip
- Internet Archiveepiloguememoir00roip_681
- ISBN-100061254622
- ISBN-100061254630
- ISBN-100061704512
and 13 more
- ISBN-139780061254628
- ISBN-139780061254635
- ISBN-139780061704512
- ISBN-139780061668579
- ISBN-100061668575
- LibraryThing5608863
- Goodreads3780236', '6500807', '2875042
- Library of Congress Control Number2008034530
- OCLC Control Number191930141
- Better World Books9780061254635
- Better World Books9780061668579
- Better World Books9780061254628
- Open LibraryOL17073726M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- DDCB
- LCCPS3568.O53 Z46 2008
and 1 more
- LCCPS3568.O53Z46 2008
Description
Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man for dinner and a movie.Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that Roiphe began to consider the previously unimagined possibility of a new man. Moving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of a new day-to-day routine, Epilogue takes us on her journey into the unknown world of life after love.Roiphe decides to reenter the dating world. But between new lunches, coffee dates, and e-mail exchanges, she wrestles with an unsettling loneliness. Recollections of marriage evoke complex, unexpected emotions on her journey through grief toward new companionship. In beautifully wrought vignettes, she recalls hailing a cab for the first time and learning to lock and unlock the front door—tasks her husband had always done.Eloquent and astute, Epilogue tells the story of love rekindled and life remade. Roiphe offers us an elegant literary pastiche not of grief, but of hope and renewal.
Description
"Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man for dinner and a movie." Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that Roiphe began to consider the previously unimagined possibility of a new man. Moving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of a new day-to-day routine, this book takes us on her journey into the unknown world of life after love. Roiphe offers us an elegant literary pastiche not of grief, but of hope and renewal.--From publisher description.
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- Biography
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