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The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon

of Donald Hall

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A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald HallIn 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.

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 272 pages
  • Publisher Mariner Books
  • Publication Date November 8th 2006
  • First Publication 11/06/05
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780618773626
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Other
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