Bibliograph

All of this, a memoir of death and desire, Rebecca Woolf

Type

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All of this, a memoir of death and desire, Rebecca Woolf

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All of this

Oclc number

1246676240

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Woolf

Sub title

a memoir of death and desire

Summary

"A beautifully written "grief-and-relief" memoir tackling all the things we're too afraid to say about death, marriage, sex, and how the death of a husband can lead to a rebirth"--, Provided by publisher"After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In [this book], Woolf chronicles the months before her husband's death -- and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband's illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own. Stunning, compelling, and brilliantly nuanced, [this book] is one woman's story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame -- as a mother, a widow, and a sexual being -- and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief" -- Book jacket

Table Of Contents

Cancer season -- Broken news -- Hurrycanes -- In sickness and in health -- Future exes -- Punchlines -- Sleep talking -- The last sunset -- Green -- Still life -- Ash and bone -- Coastlines -- La petite mort -- Some other beginning's end -- My bloody valentine -- First dates -- The tenderness of one-night stands -- Something casual -- Witches -- Sirens -- Everyone is a storm/April 2020 -- Bylines -- Birthdays

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