Late-life love : a memoir
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Late-life love : a memoir
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Author/Creator:
SUSAN GUBAR.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Physical Description:
337 pages.
Abstract:
| "On Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles her into an appreciation of their luck. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, Susan considers how older lovers differ from their youthful counterparts--and from ageist stereotypes. When her husband encounters age-related disabilities, Susan procrastinates over moving from their burdensome house in the country to a more manageable town apartment by searching out literature on the longevity of desire by authors from Ovid and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson. During subsequent months of care-giving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, and apartment-hunting, Susan studies the obstacles many older couples overcome and marvels at the passion that buoys her own relationship. A memoir proving that love and desire have no expiration date, Late-life love is a resounding retort to negative valuations of old age and a celebration of second chances"-- Provided by publisher. |
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