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    Epilogue: A Memoir

    By Anne Roiphe

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    From Anne Roiphe, the critically acclaimed author of Fruitful, comes the New York Times bestselling Epilogue, a beautiful memoir about death, life, and widowhood. Roiphe explores what happened when, at age 70, she lost her husband of 40 years. Moving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of a new day-to-day routine, Epilogue takes readers on her journey into the unknown world of life after love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061871214
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    Epilogue: A Memoir
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    Anne Roiphe

    Anne Roiphe's seventeen books include Fruitful, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Vogue, Elle, Redbook, Parents, and The Guardian, and is a contributing editor to the Jerusalem Report. She lives in New York City.

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    • 3/5
      Roiphe’s husband dies unexpectedly and she is terribly lonely. Her daughters try to help her by taking out a personal ad for her. She tries to help herself by going online and using a service. She gets calls and she goes on dates. It is all a tremendous disappointment.Time passes and Roiphe gives up on the outside dating help. She gradually comes to find a peace in her solitariness. She decides to wait and see if love comes to her.
    • 5/5
      A raw and painful book of loss and grief. Roiphe is so honest, so brutal, so courageous in sharing with the reader the depth of her sorrow. The lost, disjointed emptiness that follows the loss of a lifetime love is so well-expressed I felt myself nodding in agreement over and over. It was so interesting to read about her progress through the dark tunnel of pain, experiencing so much that I experienced but describing it so much better than I ever could.I enjoyed her forays into dating, in response to a personal ad placed by her daughters. They were amusing and sad and infuriating and comforting. Men suffer in their losses too - an obvious concept that I somehow hadn't thought of before.This book is hard to read at times, but if you've been there, you will find comfort and an easing of your loneliness.
    • 5/5
      This book nearly knocked me down with its brutal honesty, with its bravery. But the stunning sadness of its subject will make it a hard sell. I'm not sure who will want to read at such length of grief. Anne Roiphe is a strong woman, of course. I knew her work only form a couple of her earliest novels: UP THE SANDBOX and LONG DIVISION. Both were early novels of feminism. So I was quite unprepared for this utterly human story of love and loss. There are a few moments here that are funny - her attempts at trying to get back into the dating scene, for example. But even those are ultimatley rather sad. I wonder if some people might lower their rating of a book like this simply because of its subject. Well, I won't be one of them. Because this is a powerful and beautifully written study of grief following the loss of one's soulmate and spouse. Roiphe is, I think, still trying to cope, to get out from under her grief. But I wonder. Does one ever "get over" something like this? This is five-star quality writing, despite the sadness of its topic. But I will be careful about whom I recommend it to. The emotions expressed here; the buttons it might push are too powerful and raw. I will not soon forget Epilogue.
    • 5/5
      Very powerful book. I appreciate Anne Roiphe's honesty and candor in describing her loneliness and the painful search to stay connected to life after the loss of her husband. It reminded me somewhat of Ann Hood's "Comfort" written after the sudden death of her 5 year old daughter. Both writers were willing to bare their pain and both eventually walked through it. Not a subject we want to embrace, but it is life, and reading such memoirs as this ends up being a reaffirmation of life and in a strange way, uplifting.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful writing. She has an amazing ability to transform raw emotion and grief into literature (unlike Joan Didion's book, which seemed more like therapy through writing than literature). Her dates were a bit off-putting, though.
    • 4/5
      Anne Roiphe had been married to H for 39 years when he died, suddenly, of a heart attack. The author, in her 60’s, expects to live many more years. But how, after 39 years of marriage, do you start to build a life without your beloved husband? Anne picks up where Joan Didion in “Year of Magical Thinking” left off. “Epilogue” explores how she began to rejoin the living, even when she didn’t want to.Her daughters, convinced she needs another husband, put a personal ad in the New York Times Book Review seeking a mate for her. Her subsequent adventures in dating are sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking, but always honest. In the end, Anne discovers that a new man may not be what she needs at all.I thought this was an absolutely groundbreaking book! Many women are widowed at a time when they can expect to live many years beyond their spouse. Anne gives us a glimpse of what life is like for these women and the unique emotional and practical issues they face. I appreciated her dedication to honesty, even when it showed her in a less then favorable light. Many of her dating stories provided much needed comic relief. In the end, this is a story of a woman who learns that she is stronger then she ever knew.I listened to the audio version of this book and Lorna Raver’s narration fits the memoir perfectly. I especially loved her querulous response to friends her tell her to dye her hair “I don’t want to.” Unless, of course, she can dye it purple!