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Epilogue: A Memoir
by: Anne Roiphe

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061254628
ISBN: 0061254622
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Sales Rank: 22720
Studio: Harper

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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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- Almost Too Ambitious
Obviously, grief and loss impact the entirety of one's life. Roiphe, however, is at her best when she writes of concrete detail -- the objects of everyday life surrounding her mother on her mother's death bed, for instance -- but goes wide of the mark when venturing into matters of cosmic import.

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- Lots of self-pity
When Anne Roiphe's long-time husband dies, she writes that men are her "necessary other," and wonders: "Could it be that a woman without a man is always on the edge of appearing as a figure of fun, a disappointed woman like a nun or the obese girl that stays at home the night of the senior prom?" Ms. Rophie was so dependent on her late husband that she's unable to unlock the door of her apartment by herself or hail a cab. She's never done her own taxes or gone to the movies alone. If you're looking for a book about widowhood with a feminist perspective, expect to be disappointed.

Although I'm sympathetic to Rophie's loss, this book is filled with mean-spirited self-pity. Rophie owns an Upper West side co-op and a house in the Hamptons that she is able to sell after her husband's death. She's certainly in much better off than the majority of widowed women in this country (or the world, for that matter). ... Read More

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- Please tell me the story isn't over!
Dear Anne Roiphe,

I spent all yesterday afternoon and evening, reading from start to finish this lovely memoir. I was held in your spell, truly. But I am strangely
convinced (because I have to be?) that you have met a man to love again.

Please tell me!

Best wishes,
Josephine Carr
josephinecarr.com
JosephineCarrWrites.blogspot.com

Rating:

- Epiligue
Excellent book for widows, or for any married woman.
Very personal, intimate, writing that shares the feelings
of a woman who is articulate about her widowhood.

Also funny and entertaining in parts. I highly recommend it.

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