Ghosting

A Widow's Voyage Out

Ghosting
Barbara Ascher
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 265pg
7 Dec 2021 US
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9780960097760
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Married at a young age to an older man , neither he nor she doubted that he would predecease her; but she discovers that there is no preparing for the loss a beloved. Their marriage was a passionate 35 year love affair, as if the odds against its longevity engendered a rare intensity. ? She discovers that love has no boundaries, grief is not eternal and ? her husband' s motto ? Life is a love story? is so very true. Ascher writes passionately about her unlikely marriage, her husband' s illness and death and her ensuing sorrow. A witness to the insanity that grief visits upon its victims with a seeming determination to destroy, she gazes straight into the eye of grief and does not blink. In time she moves beyond that grief - her voyage out. ? Ghosting is, by turns, moving and funny, tender and brutal . The wonder of Ghosting is that Ascher, like Montaigne, calls forth Everyman. ? About previous books:Pat Conroy on Dancing In The Dark: ? One of those books that wakes you up to the life you have failed to live,? What a wonderful book. ? Publishers Weekly on The Habit of Loving:? ? With her sharp, unflinching eye, she discovers wonder and truth at our very doorsteps. ? Boston Globe on Landscape Without Gravity: ? Her honesty touches the reader' s heart, opens the scars of old wounds, and helps heal them? wrenching, insightful? compelling? Eudora Welty on Playing After Dark: "Barbara Ascher has a serious mind and the gift of a light touch. "
"Love is as strong as death' the Song of Solomon says, and Barbara Ascher' s powerful story, brilliantly told, dives headlong into both, taking the reader on a breathtaking adventure - yet one that , in the end, discovers that love may be even stronger than death. " -- Elaine Pagels "So much tenderness resonates in this remarkably frank book about loving and living and dying. You will be gripped by the joyous care and superb telling here. " -- Naomi Shihab Nye "A lovely, deeply felt account of that crucial passage we all hope we will never have to go through - losing a life partner. " -- Adam Hochschild "A beautifully written memoir of marriage, love and death. . . a contemporary classic that people will give to each other for years to come. " -- Amy Hempel
Barbara Lazear Ascher is the author of four nonfiction books: Playing After Dark (Doubleday), The Habit of Loving (Random), Landscape Without Gravity (Viking Penguin), and most recently Dancing In The Dark: Romance, Yearning and The Search for The Sublime (Harper Collins). She has been a columnist for The New York Times and Elle Magazine; and a book reviewer and ? contributor to NPR, The Yale Review, The Washington Post and many other newspapers and journals. She lives in Springs, New York on Long Island' s East End.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780960097760
Published: 7 Dec 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Pushcart Press
Publisher: Pushcart Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 293g
Pages: 265

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