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The Resource Late-life love : a memoir, Susan Gubar

Late-life love : a memoir, Susan Gubar

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"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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
  • Large type edition.
  • Large print edition.
Extent
479 pages (large print)
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
Isbn
9781432862190
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Late-life love : a memoir
Title
Late-life love
Title remainder
a memoir
Statement of responsibility
Susan Gubar
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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"--
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Biography type
autobiography
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1944-
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Gubar, Susan
Dewey number
  • 305.26/20092
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
HQ1064.U5
LC item number
G83 2019b
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Gubar, Susan
  • Older women
  • Love in old age
  • Spouses
  • Women college teachers
  • Love in literature
  • Large type books
  • Gubar, Susan
  • Love in literature
  • Love in old age
  • Older women
  • Spouses
  • Women college teachers
  • United States
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Late-life love : a memoir, Susan Gubar
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Copyright
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Includes bibliographical references
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
on1077483411
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
  • Large type edition.
  • Large print edition.
Extent
479 pages (large print)
Form of item
large print
Isbn
9781432862190
Lccn
2018054056
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
Late-life love : a memoir, Susan Gubar
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
on1077483411
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
  • Large type edition.
  • Large print edition.
Extent
479 pages (large print)
Form of item
large print
Isbn
9781432862190
Lccn
2018054056
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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