Ghosting: A Widow's Voyage Out Format: Paperback

Barbara Ascher

ISBN 10: 0960097767 / ISBN 13: 9780960097760

Edité par WW Norton Publishers, 2021

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N° de réf. du vendeur 9780960097760

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ghosting: A Widow's Voyage Out Format: Paperback
• Éditeur: WW Norton Publishers
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0960097767
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780960097760
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Married at a young age to an older man, neither he nor she doubted that he would predecease her; but she discovers that there is no preparing for the loss a beloved. Their marriage was a passionate 35 year love affair, as if the odds against its longevity engendered a rare intensity. She discovers that love has no boundaries, grief is not eternal and ?her husband's motto "Life is a love story" is so very true.

Ascher writes passionately about her unlikely marriage, her husband's illness and death and her ensuing sorrow. A witness to the insanity that grief visits upon its victims with a seeming determination to destroy, she gazes straight into the eye of grief and does not blink. In time she moves beyond that grief - her voyage out.

Ghosting is, by turns, moving and funny, tender and brutal .

The wonder of Ghosting is that Ascher, like Montaigne, calls forth Everyman.

About previous books:

Pat Conroy on Dancing In The Dark:
"One of those books that wakes you up to the life you have failed to live, ...What a wonderful book."

Publishers Weekly on The Habit of Loving: ?
"With her sharp, unflinching eye, she discovers wonder and truth at our very doorsteps."

Boston Globe on Landscape Without Gravity:
"Her honesty touches the reader's heart, opens the scars of old wounds, and helps heal them...wrenching, insightful...compelling"

Eudora Welty on Playing After Dark:
Barbara Ascher has a serious mind and the gift of a light touch.

À propos de l?auteur

Barbara Lazear Ascher is the author of four nonfiction books: Playing After Dark (Doubleday), The Habit of Loving (Random), Landscape Without Gravity (Viking Penguin), and most recently Dancing In The Dark: Romance, Yearning and The Search for The Sublime (Harper Collins). She has been a columnist for The New York Times and Elle Magazine; and a book reviewer and ?contributor to NPR, The Yale Review, The Washington Post and many other newspapers and journals. She lives in Springs, New York on Long Island's East End.