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This is a wife's moving story of her husband's battle with mortal illness-prostate cancer-of his death, of her descent into grief, and of her extraordinary journey back to life. And in this highly charged context it is as well the story of a marriage, from their first meeting on the Lexington Avenue subway through their twenty-nine years together. She was a student at the New School; he (later a book reviewer for <i>The New York Times</i>) was a teacher there.<br> <br> "The world of loss, of grief, of separation is a world of change," Sandy Broyard writes, "but change that is different from growth," and she shows us that change-so unlike all the others we have experienced.<br> Through her training as a psychotherapist and her dancer's knowledge of how the mind is expressed in the body (she was formerly a Juilliard dancer, a student of Martha Graham and Mary Wigman), Broyard begins to understand the ways in which grief persists. She saw how Anatole's ill body, once so beautiful, distorted itself, and discovered how loss expressed itself in her own muscles.<br> <br> She tells how her experience of mourning Anatole was prefigured by the loss, thirty years before when she was twenty, o

Author

Broyard, Sandy

Publisher

New York: Alfred A. Knopf ; New York: Distributed by Random House

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400042111

Subjects

Psychology, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.34 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14