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A Memoir
Harper
September 2008
On Sale: August 26, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 0061254622
EAN: 9780061254628
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl,
ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list
here, loves big parties, summers at the beach,
grandchildren, seeks interesting man for dinner and a movie. Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband
of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was
not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary
journal that Roiphe began to consider the previously
unimagined possibility of a new man. Moving between
heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing
needs of a new day-to-day routine, Epilogue takes us on her
journey into the unknown world of life after love. Roiphe decides to reenter the dating world. But between new
lunches, coffee dates, and e-mail exchanges, she wrestles
with an unsettling loneliness. Recollections of marriage
evoke complex, unexpected emotions on her journey through
grief toward new companionship. In beautifully wrought
vignettes, she recalls hailing a cab for the first time and
learning to lock and unlock the front door—tasks her husband
had always done. Eloquent and astute, Epilogue tells the story of love
rekindled and life remade. Roiphe offers us an elegant
literary pastiche not of grief, but of hope and renewal.
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