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100 1  Porter, Jeffrey Lyn,|d1951-|eauthor. 
245 10 Planet claire :|bsuite for cello and sad-eyed lovers: a 
       memoir /|cJeff Porter. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bGracie Belle,
       |c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    271 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 00 |tPluto (the separator) --|tCharon (the borderman) --
       |tSaturn (the cogitator) --|tTitan (the elder) --|tMars 
       (the contrarian) --|tPhobos (bringer of terror) --
       |tJupiter (the combiner) --|tEuropa (master of subzero) --
       |tVenus (the joker) --|tThe moon (strange attractor) --
       |tMercury (the envoy)--|tThe sun (the spectator) --
       |tNeptune (the randomizer)|tCentaurus (the traveler). 
520    "Jeff Porter has given us an incredibly warm, rich, vivid 
       memoir, a love letter to his deceased wife and an 
       autobiography of love attained and lost. When a person 
       dies a world passes away, yet Porter has created a cabinet
       of wonders out of a thousand bits of the world that 
       vanished when his wife died. The sentences are sharp and 
       surprising, perfectly formed, by turns painful, funny, 
       haunting, and inevitably right."--Richard Preston, author 
       of The Hot Zone "Jeff Porter indelibly conjures his lost, 
       beloved Claire in a 'spiral galaxy' of memory, while 
       offering the story of a delicious marriage in prose that 
       is elegiac but also gorgeous, funny, and endearingly 
       modest." --Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter 
       "The pleasure is in the circling intelligence of the 
       memoirist, each gyre bringing us closer to this very 
       specific, endearing individual's life experience and his 
       love for Claire. Paradoxical as it sounds, this book about
       death and grief is charming, humorous, poignant, and 
       vital." --Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell 
       "Planet Claire left me awestruck. I don't know how he did 
       it, but on every page of this incredible book, Jeff Porter
       manages to convey devastating sadness while also being 
       delightful company. His grief does double duty as an 
       almost otherworldly sort of introspection, pulling the 
       reader into a continuum in which time, space, love, loss, 
       art, and nature constantly play off one another until they
       become one another. This is not just the best grief memoir
       I've read in years, it's one the best memoirs, period." --
       Meghan Daum, author of The Problem with Everything Planet 
       Claire is the story of the untimely death of the author's 
       wife and a candid account of the following year of madness
       and grief. With Claire's death, Jeff Porter tries to 
       imagine life without her but struggles with the 
       bewilderment that follows. There was no gradual transition,
       no chance to say goodbye or resolve unfinished business. 
       The grief is crushing, her death the psychological 
       equivalent of Pearl Harbor. As Jeff's life unravels, he 
       analyzes his sadness with growing interest. He talks to 
       Claire as if to evoke a presence, to mark a space for 
       memory. He reports on his daily walks and shares 
       observations of life's sadness, while reminiscing about 
       various moments in their life together. Like Orpheus, the 
       author searches for a lost love, and what he finds is not 
       the dog of doom but flashes of an intimate symmetry that 
       brighten the darkest places of sorrow. Planet Claire takes
       readers on a journey of sorrow that recalls memorable 
       works by C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed), Joan Didion (The 
       Year of Magical Thinking), and Julian Barnes (Levels of 
       Life). Planet Claire, however, is also playful, quirky, 
       and self-ironic in a way that challenges the genre's 
       traditional solemnity. Like Max Porter's novel Grief Is 
       the Thing with Feathers, this is an unpredictably funny 
       account of heartbreak, as if to say there's something 
       about the magnitude of loss that troubles even earnestness
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