by Joyce Carol Oates · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420407289
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Memorias de una viuda» is the memoir by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (480 pages, in Spanish).
Joyce Carol Oates reconstructs the months following the sudden death of her husband, Raymond Smith, whom she accompanied to the emergency room for pneumonia and lost a week later. Between grief, black humor and reflection, the author covers almost half a century of shared life and offers an unprecedented portrait of her private life.
Part of the Literaturas collection from Alfaguara. Published in 2011, the Spanish text is a translation from the original English.
A work for readers of memoirs and biographies, especially for those seeking a sincere account of loss and grief.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
