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A Widow's Story (2011)

by Joyce Carol Oates(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0062015532 (ISBN13: 9780062015532)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Ecco

review 1: This is a story of sudden loss and the agony that follows. It is also a fact that half of every married couple will we widowed and grieve. No grief is the same as another and yet all are similar. I liked this account because of the way Joyce could so accurately draw her feelings. I feel the "health care" system failed her at every turn. She did not give advise on how to survive. I wonder if she has advise now for those who ask her for it.
review 2: I cannot imagine the sudden and unexpected death of a spouse. I also cannot imagine writing a review of this book in which you admit not having read a good part of it. This is not a how-to manual for widowhood. It is the author's experience of a devastating loss. If your experience with a loss such as this is diff... moreerent, I cannot understand how that invalidates Oats' experience. This book is at times painful to read. At other times, funny. Still others, confusing and unsettling. But at all times it rings true to what I know of the author and to what I imagine a loss such as this would feel like. Don't judge how she handles the loss. Just read the book and try to feel what she felt. If you still want to give it one star, then go ahead. But please don't review it if you haven't read it. less

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