| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Description |
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
large print 16 point rdafs |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs |
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Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Gubar, Susan, 1944-
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Gubar, Susan, 1944- (OCoLC)fst00025594
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Older women -- United States -- Biography.
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Love in old age.
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Spouses.
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Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography.
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Love in literature.
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Love in literature. (OCoLC)fst01002808
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Love in old age. (OCoLC)fst01002812
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Older women. (OCoLC)fst01199159
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Spouses. (OCoLC)fst01130842
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Women college teachers. (OCoLC)fst01177488
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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| Genre/Form |
Large type books.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Editions: |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Gubar, Susan,1944- Late-life love New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019] (DLC) 2018030538 |
| ISBN |
9781432862190 (hardcover ; large print) |
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1432862197 (hardcover ; large print) |
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