Late-life love : a memoir / Susan Gubar.

"'Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging.'-- Stephen Greenblatt. On Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles her into an appreciat...

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Main Author: Gubar, Susan, 1944- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:337 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Thanksgiving
  • A second chance
  • Signs of decline
  • Falling in love
  • The trace
  • Props
  • Alterations
  • Lovesickness
  • What's love got to do with it?
  • Late-life lechery
  • Sunsets
  • Cupidity
  • Wrinkled in time
  • Give and take
  • Tequila mockingbird
  • Wintering
  • Silver threads among the gold
  • Recounting the ways
  • Enormous changes at the last minute
  • Chrisnukkah
  • Later.