A slant of light

Description:

This beautiful and moving memoir is deceptively simple. It weaves together memories, scenes, characters in a powerful warp and weft across decades. At the center is the enchanting figure of Joan, a woman who ignites each scene just as she provided light and life for her large and far-flung family. Galbraith Crump's meditations on Joan and their life together are vivid and particular to be sure--and breathtakingly powerful--but they also evoke larger considerations of meaning and mortality that will touch any reader. --David Lynn, Editor of The Kenyon Review

subjects: Marriage,  academic life,  loss of spouse,  English teachers,  Biography,  Critics,  College teachers' spouses,  Ovaries,  Cancer,  Patients

People: Galbraith Crump,  Joan Crump,  David Lynn,  Emily Dickenson

Places: Kenyon College,  Bay-on-Thames,  Reading University,  Oxford University

Times: 1950-2009