Publisher's Synopsis
El libro más personal e impactante de Joyce Carol Oates, firme candidata al Premio Nobel En una mañana gris de febrero, Joyce Carol Oates llevó a su marido Raymond Smith a urgencias aquejado de una neumonía; una semana después, ciertas complicaciones terminaban con su vida. Estas deslumbrantes páginas capturan el estado emocional de Oates tras la repentina muerte de su marido, y cómo se ve obligada a hallar el equilibrio sin la alianza que la había sostenido durante cuarenta y siete años y veinticinco días. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The most private and striking account written by Joyce Carol Oates. On a gray 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. In less than a week, Ray died from a hospitalacquired virulent infection? and Joyce was suddenly faced with the stunning reality of widowhood. A Widow's Story illuminates one woman's struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.
