false 3780236 4 <blockquote> <p> Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man for dinner and a movie. </p> </blockquote> <p> Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that Roiphe began to consider the previously unimagined possibility of a new man. Moving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of a new day-to-day routine, <i>Epilogue</i> takes us on her journey into the unknown world of life after love. </p> <p> Roiphe decides to reenter the dating world. But between new lunches, coffee dates, and e-mail exchanges, she wrestles with an unsettling loneliness. Recollections of marriage evoke complex, unexpected emotions on her journey through grief toward new companionship. In beautifully wrought vignettes, she recalls hailing a cab for the first time and learning to lock and unlock the front door&#8212;tasks her husband had always done. </p> <p> Eloquent and astute, <i>Epilogue</i> tells the story of love rekindled and life remade. Roiphe offers us an elegant literary pastiche not of grief, but of hope and renewal. </p> 3824324 1 9 2008 Epilogue: A Memoir total:96|5:16|4:36|3:29|2:10|1:5| 96 336 232 43 4 1 true false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 18:21:05 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 11:48:38 -0700 2008 Up the Sandbox! through Water from the Well...), you may already be familiar with descriptions of her feminist writings, which combine realism and romance. Roiphe is also a well-established memoir writer (1185 Par...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 08:05:41 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 08:39:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 04:39:53 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 04:40:19 -0800 2009
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