This book is especially interesting In these days when divorce has become so common. It tells movingly of Oates' puzzlement, loneliness and raw suffering when her not so young husband dies. What is it that some people seem to know, which enables them to share their life, nourishing one another? And then they are lost when they're left alone by the death of their spouse. And in Oates' case her writing doesn't seem to help her.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 62 Autumn 2011 ) |
