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Epilogue: A Memoir
Anne Roiphe
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Paperback, 214 pages; 2009 (2008)
$14.99
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ime is the widow's friend, they say. But what they say is not always true. What I know is that time is moving forward while the face of the moon changes and changes back again and I am here suspended in time, like the fly I saw in an amber stone, waiting for release.
Novelist Anne Roiphe's bare-bones memoir offers a strikingly honest portrait of the year and a half following the death of her husband of thirty-nine years. In clear, unsentimental, and beautifully written vignettes, Roiphe chronicles her painful acclimation to the everyday challenges of widowhood. Though aching loneliness is palpable in her brutally self-aware descriptions of getting accustomed to hailing her own cab or attending movies alone, a faint but tenable thread of hope runs throughout the book. When her daughters place a personal ad for her in the New York Review of Books Roiphe's late-in-life reentrance into the dating world provides, for both author and reader, welcome levity and distraction. Ultimately, Epilogue is the inspiring story of one erudite woman's learning to cope with a difficult--but, of course, all too common--transition.
(AG)
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