Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik,
ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big
parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man
for dinner and a movie.
Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of
nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until
her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that
Roiphe began to consider the previously unimagined possibility of a
new man. Moving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and
the pressing needs of a new day-to-day routine, "Epilogue" takes us
on her journey into the unknown world of life after love.
Roiphe decides to reenter the dating world. But between new
lunches, coffee dates, and e-mail exchanges, she wrestles with an
unsettling loneliness. Recollections of marriage evoke complex,
unexpected emotions on her journey through grief toward new
companionship. In beautifully wrought vignettes, she recalls
hailing a cab for the first time and learning to lock and unlock
the front door--tasks her husband had always done.
Eloquent and astute, "Epilogue" tells the story of love
rekindled and life remade. Roiphe offers us an elegant literary
pastiche not of grief, but of hope and renewal.
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