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Author Maynard, Joyce, 1953- author.

Title The best of us : a memoir / Joyce Maynard.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Large Print Materials  LARGE PRINT FIC MAYNARD    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Large Print  LP-B-MAYNARD MAY    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 661 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium large print (16 point) rda
Series Thorndike Press large print basic
Note "Thorndike Press large print basic."
Summary "In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn't mind the mess she made in the kitchen. Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even after they married, Joyce resolved that no one could alter her course of determined independence. Then, just after their one-year wedding anniversary, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed, as they battled his illness together, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple--'to be a true partner and to have one.' This is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance, a marriage cut short by tragedy, and Joyce's return to living alone on new terms, The Best of Us is a heart-wrenching, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss."--Jacket.
Subject Barringer, James A.
Maynard, Joyce, 1953-
Pancreas -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Middle-aged persons -- Biography.
Married people -- United States -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Large type books.
Maynard, Joyce, 1953- (OCoLC)fst00002002
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781432847418 (hardcover ; large print)
1432847414 (hardcover ; large print)
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