Late-life love

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"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"--

subjects: Older women,  Love in literature,  Love in old age,  Women college teachers,  Spouses,  Biography,  Women, united states, biography,  College teachers,  Love,  Teachers, biography,  New York Times reviewed,  Older couples,  Older people,  Psychology,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs,  LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading,  PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging,  SELF-HELP / Aging,  Gubar, susan , 1944-,  Older women--united states--biography,  Women college teachers--united states--biography,  Biography & autobiography / personal memoirs,  Literary criticism / books & reading,  Psychology / developmental / adulthood & aging,  Self-help / aging

People: Susan Gubar (1944-)

Places: United States