Late-life love : a memoir / Susan Gubar.
"'Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging.'-- Stephen Greenblatt. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393609578
- ISBN: 039360957X
- Physical Description: 337 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Gubar, Susan, 1944- Older women > United States > Biography. Love in old age. Spouses. Women college teachers > United States > Biography. Love in literature. |
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Easton Main Library | 305.26 G921ℓ (Text) | 31901004297703 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Allentown Public Library | 305.26 GUBA (Text) | 34455006514174 | Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL | Available | - |
Bethlehem Coolidge Branch | 305.26 (Text) | 33062009115461 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Brandywine Community Library | GUB (Text) | 33249022394393 | Biography | Available | - |
Glatfelter Memorial Library | Adults GUBAR Biography (Text) | 34216000964876 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | 305.26 Gubar Aging (Text) | 39427103416533 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | 305.262 GUB 2019 (Text) | 31001101743590 | Adult Non Fiction | Available | - |
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County | Adults Gubar Biography (Text) | 34318001155072 | Adult Area | Available | - |