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Widower's House - A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home (Paperback)
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Widower's House - A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home (Paperback)
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Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris
Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would
never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes
from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of Bayley's own poignant
memoir, Elegy for Iris. But more alarming were the hundreds of
calls from seemingly well-meaning women, many of whom rang Bayley's
doorbell in Oxford, bearing cakes, casserole dishes, and delivering
pep talks designed to cheer up the widower of their dreams. Here,
in Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement or How Margot and Mella
Forced Me to Flee My Home, Bayley tells the painful, inspirational,
and ultimately uplifting story of how he had to grapple with his
fate as a man by beginning life anew in his mid-seventies. Like
millions of other widows and widowers, Bayley, as he relates it,
found himself emotionally unprepared for the responsibilities and
burdens that confront people who suddenly find themselves alone. He
hadn't realized how differently you are treated when you are not
part of a couple, and how you must learn to respond to friends,
family members, and total strangers in completely different ways.
With the reassuring, compassionate voice of Iris still a mournful
obbligato in the background, Bayley describes the pitfalls a
widower must face as he ventures out into the newly virgin world
beyond his front door. Finding comfort in recording the day-to-day
calamities that marked his reentry into the real world, Bayley uses
surprising humor reflected here in the vivid depictions of his new
suitors, Margot and Mella to get him through his darkest days.
Melodic, irrepressible, and comically comforting, Widower's House,
with its heartwarming and surprisingly romantic ending, will reveal
yet a new side of the man who has become England's most unlikely
symbol of masculine virility."
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