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by: Anne Roiphe

: Epilogue: A Memoir

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061254628
ISBN: 0061254622
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Studio: Harper
Sales Rank: 16319



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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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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Please tell me the story isn't over!
Dear Anne Roiphe,

I spent all yesterday afternoon and evening, reading from start to finish this lovely memoir. I was held in your spell, truly. But I am strangely
convinced (because ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Epiligue
Excellent book for widows, or for any married woman.
Very personal, intimate, writing that shares the feelings
of a woman who is articulate about her widowhood.

Also funny and entertaining ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - surprisingly engaging....although not an enjoyable book
I'm sure it's not surprising to anyone that this would not be an enjoyable book to read. I bought this book because I have a mother in law who is still suffering the loss of her husband who died a year and a half ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Epligoue
Enjoyed the book. It ran true to the situation.
So far its the best book on grieving I have read from a widow's standpoint.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - real and honest and beautifully written
We're all going to die and we're all going to face the death of loved ones in our lives. Some of us write about it but few that I've read write about it as well as this. Roiphe is as she says -- sad -- and honest ... Read More

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