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We are all destined to be touched by the subject of this book. In prose spare and unsparing, Ruth Coughlin addresses widowhood in its largest sense, acknowledging that the language of loss, like that of music and love, is universal. "No one can tell you about grief, about its limitless boundaries, its unfathomable depths," she writes in this first-person account detailing the shattering, harrowing circumstances of her husband's ten-month struggle against terminal cancer and the profound devastation that followed his death. "No one can tell you about the crater that is created in the center of…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 1993
    Random House Trade Paperbacks · 192 pages · 9780812992601
  • Other · English · 2017
    Independently Published · 9781520561585
  • Other · English · 1994
    G.K. Hall · 191 pages · 9780816159628
  • Other · English · 1994
    Harper Perennial · 176 pages · 9780060976354
  • Other · English · 1993
    Random House · 176 pages · 9780679426967
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