Book : In Love A Memoir Of Love And Loss - Bloom, Amy

-Titulo Original : In Love A Memoir Of Love And Loss

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Random House

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part-and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss-that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post)“A pleasure to read . . . Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life. . . . Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious.”-USA Today ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-Oprah Daily, BookPageAmy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease.Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace.In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing-its ending. Written in Bloom’s captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love. Review An Amazon Best Book of March 2022: How far would you go for someone you love? Would you help them die? Maybe that sounds a bit melodramatic, and this memoir could have easily been that. I mean, it’s about a husband being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and asking his adoring wife to help him end his life on his own terms rather than be ravaged by this unrelenting disease. But the wife in question happens to be lauded author Amy Bloom, and she has pulled off the impossible: Conveying the profound pain of this emotionally and practically complex situation in a way that’s palatable, and in a way that doesn’t raise the hackles of those who would make a different choice than they did. With candor and compassion,In Love will challenge the way you think about this controversial and heart-wrenching dilemma that many have no choice but to confront. -Erin Kodicek, Amazon Editor Review “Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious, which makes the book, despite its depressing subject matter, a pleasure to read. Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life.”-USA Today“As with all great books about dying, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss does not terrorize with grim statistics and forewarnings but rather destigmatizes euthanasia and enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude. It renews those joys of being ‘In Love’ with the people around us-despite the numbing effects of routine and familiarity which so often cause happiness to lapse in middle age.”-The Washington Post“I’m not sure why I hadn’t until now read Bloom’s fiction. . . . Not reading her: my loss. Bloom has one of those warm, wised-up, tolerantly misanthropic New York voices, in the manner of Laurie Colwin and Sloane Crosley and Allegra Goodman and Nora Ephron, and an ability to deepen her tone at will.”-Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Reading this book is, purely and simply, a transcendent experience. In Love is a thrillingly beautiful, laser-eyed book about love, life, mortality, and, most remarkably, the ways in which no one of the three can be separated from the others. Prepare yourself to be heartbroken, expanded, unsettled, and filled with hope.”-Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at the End of the World “I read In Love in one sitting on a long flight and a flight never went by so fast. I am