Late-life love a memoir
(2019)

Nonfiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/MEMOIR/GUBAR,S

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Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/MEMOIR/GUBAR,S Due: 5/21/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2019]
©2019
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781432862190, 1432862197 :, 1432862197, 9781432862190
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

"On Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles her into an appreciation of their luck. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, Susan considers how older lovers differ from their youthful counterparts--and from ageist stereotypes. When her husband encounters age-related disabilities, Susan procrastinates over moving from their burdensome house in the country to a more manageable town apartment by searching out literature on the longevity of desire by authors from Ovid and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson. During subsequent months of care-giving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, and apartment-hunting, Susan studies the obstacles many older couples overcome and marvels at the passion that buoys her own relationship. A memoir proving that love and desire have no expiration date, Late-Life Love is a resounding retort to negative valuations of old age and a celebration of second chances"--