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A widow's story

Paperback • 2011 • English • 1. edition

A widow's story: a memoir

By Joyce Carol Oates

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a week, even as Joyce was preparing for his discharge, Ray was dead from a hospital-acquired virulent infection, and Joyce was suddenly faced -- totally unprepared -- with the reality of widowhood....Show more

Biography: writers
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Book details

ISBN

9780007388189

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

A widow's story

Format

Paperback

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