Late-Life Love: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Gubar, Susan

• Book ID: 110450824
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 501 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393609578

✦ Synopsis

"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...