A Widow's Story - Softcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062020501 ISBN 13: 9780062020505

Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA, 2012

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Book by Oates Joyce Carol

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Críticas:

"Oates excellently conveys the disconnect between the inwardly chaotic self and the outwardly functioning person..."--New York Review of Books

"Affecting...perfectly pitched prose..."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"An affecting portrait of anguish."--The Economist

"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."--Book Forum

"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."--Wall Street Journal

"[Oates] shines a bright light in every corner in her soul-searing memoir of widowhood."--Publishers Weekly

"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."--Daily Beast

"As much a portrait of a unique marriage as a chronicle of grief...immensely moving..."--People

"A Widow's Story is unlike anything Oates has written before...a poignant and raw examination of the obsessiveness and self-indulgence of grief..."--Denver Post

"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..."--Elle

Reseña del editor:

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’sAbout Alice.

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• Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062020501
• ISBN 13: 9780062020505
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 415