Late-life love : a memoir / by Susan Gubar.
Material type: TextPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2019]Edition: Large print editionDescription: 479 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781432862190
- 1432862197
- 305.26/20092Â BÂ 23
- HQ1064.U5Â G83 2019b
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Independence Public Library Large Print Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | LP 305.26 GUBAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123010398079 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Thanksgiving -- A second chance -- Signs of decline -- Falling in love -- The trace -- Props -- Alterations -- Lovesickness -- What's love got to do with it? -- Late-life lechery -- Sunsets -- Cupidity -- Wrinkled in time -- Give and take -- Tequila mockingbird -- Wintering -- Silver threads among the gold -- Recounting the ways -- Enormous changes at the last minute -- Chrisnukkah -- Later.
"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"--
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