Hall, Donald

The Best Day The Worst Day: Life With Jane Kenyon [Uncorrected proof]

Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Trade Paperback. Item #277330
ISBN: 281AIB1054874

258 pages. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). From the publisher: 'A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall. In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life. The couple made a home at their New England farmhouse, where they rejoiced in rituals of writing, gardening, caring for pets, and connecting with their rural community through friends and church. The Best Day the Worst Day presents a portrait of the inner moods of the best marriage I know about, as Hall has written, against the stark medical emergency of Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months. Between recollections of better times, Hall shares with readers the daily ordeal of Jane's dying through heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring storytelling.' A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author on the title page dated 2008. With folded publisher's prospectus laid in.

Price: $25.00