Epilogue: A Memoir

Author - Anne Roiphe ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Harper was reviewed on 9-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Epilogue: A Memoir by Harper. 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 ago. I thought maybe this book could offer some sort of comfort since she cannot seem to find it anywhere else. It´s obvious that the author can empathize.

I found the use of letters to describe people in her life a bit distracting. I think the book might have flowed a bit better with names instead. I was also a bit disappointed that the author never found another mate, although I am sure she is more so than I. I have found great respect for this woman to be able to put into words the lonliness and sadness that lay in the wake of someone who has lost their spouse. I was hoping to find the "answer" to getting back to normal after such a loss. None was given. Just the thoughts, emotion, and confusion that follow death. Although, there is some comfort to be had in the fact that these feelings seem to be normal.

As a person who is not widowed, it was an eye opener to what may lie ahead. It made me want to be a better person to my husband, while he is still alive to see it. I hope my mother in law will find some peace with this book.......we shall see.
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2) Hardcover Book Epilogue: A Memoir by Harper. 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.¤

3) Hardcover Book Epilogue: A Memoir by Harper. 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 in talking about her grief and loneliness and hope. I bought it after I read a library copy because I wanted to have it for my own so I can read it again when I am facing these feelings myself.¤

4) Hardcover Book Epilogue: A Memoir by Harper. Sorry to be the first dissenting opinion, but before Mrs. Roiphe is elevated to sainthood I feel I need to point out that I don´t know if I will ever be able to finish this book. A terrible thing happened to her, yes, and I appreciate that writing about it to deal with it is just what she does. But her self-pity is hard to take after the first few chapters. I completely respect her right to feel sorry for herself, but I just can´t bear to read about it. Hopefully she will eventually make some progress in dealing with her grief - dare I suggest, even a little humor??? I guess it´s insensitive of me to hope for humor out of a widow. I am going to put the book away for now. Maybe I´ll pick it up again in a few months.¤

5) Hardcover Book Epilogue: A Memoir by Harper. As a new widow, I can relate to all the problems, concerns, feelings, adjusting, and just getting on with your life after a husband dies. Anne Roiphe has written such a beautiful memoir of her experience with the death of her husband, it was like she knew what I was feeling, or I knew what she was feeling and going through. I will be sharing this book not only with my widowed friends, but also my married friends. Epilogue: A Memoir, is a book I will be reading over again. I know life goes on after death, and this book shows how this can happen. This book will make you laugh and cry and hope for better days. I could be her friend.¤

6) Hardcover Book Epilogue: A Memoir by Harper.

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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