A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates (Signed, 1st/1st,2011, Hardcover)

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Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
Book Title
Widow's Story : a Memoir
Signed
Yes
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Item Length
9in.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Inscribed
No
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Publication Year
2011
Type
Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.3in.
Personalized
No
Author
Joyce Carol Oates
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Psychology, Social Science
Topic
Women Authors, Death & Dying, Grief & Loss, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Item Width
6in.
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Number of Pages
415 Pages
ISBN
9780062015532
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  • 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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