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1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780062015532
Book Title
Widow's Story : a Memoir
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2011
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
Joyce Carol Oates
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Topic
Women, Women Authors, Death & Dying, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow's Story is the universally acclaimed author's poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oates, whose novels ( Blonde , The Gravedigger's Daughter , Little Bird of Heaven , etc.) rank among the very finest in contemporary American fiction, offers an achingly personal story of love and loss. A Widow's Story is a literary memoir on a par with The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Calvin Trillin's About Alice .

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062015532
ISBN-13
9780062015532
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109121771

Product Key Features

Book Title
Widow's Story : a Memoir
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Women, Women Authors, Death & Dying, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author
Joyce Carol Oates
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
…Astonishingly candid…[Oates's] suffering gushes forth in page after page of detailed prose, snatches of sentences, reportorial and intuitive, emotional and reflective…Oates set out to write a widow's handbook. What she has accomplished is a story of a marriage., The novelist and essayist pens her most intimate book about the death of her husband of 46 years. Judging by the excerpt in The New Yorker Oates' memoir will join Antonia Fraser and Joan Didion on the shelf of essential works on loss., A Widow's Story is unlike anything Oates has written before…a poignant and raw examination of the obsessiveness and self-indulgence of grief…, A brave, dark but slyly mordant memoir…Oates rages at the dying of the light of her life in this unflinching, generous portrait of the terror of emptiness., "Widowhood for Oates is a rough, disfiguring condition, one that mocks past happiness. Words are her salvation. "A Widow's Story" is a brave book that carries its author through the contortions of doubt and despair, on a pilgrimage back to life.", Flourishes of black humor punctuate the drumbeat of grief, setting the book apart from works such as Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking., Joyce Carol Oates writes like a force of nature, and a story emerges, as if organically, from the physicality of her grief. There are few secrets and no lies, only insights into the inner world of her partner of 50 years., …A cascade-of-consciousness that will mostly mesmerize you and surely move you…a book more painfully self-revelatory than anything Oates the fiction writer or critic has ever dared to produce., "A wildly unhinged, 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...Oates continues to keep her readers guessing at her next thrilling effort.", Oates' raw emotion lifts the veil of the enormity of grief that most widows, and widowers, must feel at the loss of their partners in a way that will come as a shock to some and a relief to others., As a writer, heightened emotion is the essential ingredient in [Oates'] work…As A Widow's Story progresses, it becomes [Raymond Smith's] story--both an homage to a decent, intensely private man, and Oates' way of keeping him in memory as she probes his most closely guarded self., Joyce Carol Oates's new memoir, A Widow's Story, is a naked confession about the messy relation of art to life…A Widow's Story, while about life after the death of a husband, is also about the intense inner life of a female genius…, …As enthralling as it is painful…a searing account…It is characteristic of Oates's superb balancing of the intellectual and the emotional that she enables a reader to experience Smith's death in the dramatic way she herself did., "Oates writes movingly about the terror, depression and suicidal ruminations that dominated her existence in the months after Smith's death…it's impossible to be unmoved by Oates' "Story," by the degree to which she sees her husband everywhere she looks, as she finds beauty in the elusive notion of renewal.", Astonishing…revelatory…[A Widow's Story] is remarkable…for how candidly Oates explores the writer's secret life: the private world of her marriage, which…she asserts is far truer and more real, and of far greater importance, than any of her imaginary creations., Oates excellently conveys the disconnect between the inwardly chaotic self and the outwardly functioning person…, "In a narrative as searing as the best of her fiction, Oates describes the aftermath of her husband Ray's unexpected death from pneumonia…It's the painful, scorchingly angry journey of a woman struggling to live in a house "from which meaning has departed, like air leaking from a balloon."
Dewey Decimal
818.5409
Lc Classification Number
Ps3565.A8a46 2011

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  • par davclo
    juil. 17, 2016

    undercut by the facts

    I refer readers to the NYtimes review written by Janet Maslin in 2011. She notes that a whole book about being widowed fails to mention that exactly 11 months after the death of her husband, Ray Smith, Joyce Carol Oates is engaged to be married to a neurologist. This knowledge puts into a different perspective the story of leaving her husband's voice on the answering machine for over a year. It is also invites incredulity that one (especially one with a good imagination) could not have imagined the death of a man who was already 77. These things happen. I wonder if the book was written as a rebuke to the hospital because Mr Smith's pneumonia was complicated by a hospital infection. One sees the picture of a woman coddled in her marriage by a man who managed all the paperwork and shelved ...

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  • par anneaxelrod
    mars 08, 2011

    A Widow's Story Review

    It's certainly closer to home and better than other more religious Moody type books I've read looking for answers to my own husband's death 15 months ago. I could relate (we're all of a same age; my husband, too, went through Jesuit traning and kept much to himself; and I'm half Jewish). I could most relate when she was really focused on her feelings before and after his death -- the guilt, the nonthingness, the meaninglessless of everything you see around you, in and outside your home. But there's much more to this experience that I feel she went through but maybe forgot or didn't want to share. I was also dissapointed that she didn't extend the time period beyond the several months after her husband's death. I'm still in a a state of non-belief and I was looking for more. For a start, ...

  • par bc0717ky
    nov. 04, 2014

    depressing

    dreadfully depressing. This fine intelligent sophisticated woman writer gives the reader a blow by blow feeling after the death of her husband..meanwhile unintentionally revealing her privileged life in Princeton NJ with all of her many friends. One wonders why she wrote this book instead of just keeping it as a diary as so few insights and so little knowledge is gained by the reader

  • par kg2238
    janv. 02, 2012

    All positive

    Great price especially for a hard cover. Thanks for a very positive experience. Being a widow, I can relate to this story even though everyones experience is different and their own.