Full name: A Widow's Story: A Memoir

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062015532 0062015532

Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow's Story is the universally acclaimed author's poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oates, whose novels (Blonde, The Gravedigger's Daughter, Little Bird of Heaven, etc.) rank among the very finest in contemporary American fiction, offers an achingly personal story of love and loss. A Widow's Story is a literary memoir on a par with The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Calvin Trillin's About Alice. Similar books: The Lost Landscape by Joyce Carol Oates The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick Name All the Animals by Alison Smith Sleeping with Cats by Marge Piercy Moose by Stephanie Klein A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively Dreaming by Carolyn See Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover