The author explores the continual appeal of romance, plumbing art, literature, history, philosophy, and psychology for evidence of this most hopeful of human activities. Reprint.

Isn't It Romantic?: Finding the Magic in Everyday Life

Self-Help

Ascher, Barbara Lazear

Relationships

Cliff Street Books

In the best tradition of the Hers columns from the New York Times, these warm, spontaneous, and gently ruminative essays by a gifted writer are about bringing up children, the married life, middle age, and literature.

Playing After Dark

History

Americas

Harpercollins

In July 1989 Barbara Lazear Ascher learned that her brother, Bobby, had died of AIDS at the age of thirty-one. With an older sister's efficiency, she notified her parents and arranged Bobby's cremation; then, almost against her will, she began to grieve. This extraordinary book is a record of what she encountered in that "landscape without gravity."
Here is a bold account of a sister coming to terms with her brother's death and with the type of grief that arises only when one sibling loses another—a grief that is all too often unacknowledged and borne in silence. Here too is a map for that "hero's journey" we call mourning. Ascher locates the moments of healing inside the kind of hurt that seems to last forever, making this profoundly comforting, invaluable reading for anyone—especially brothers and sisters faced with loss.

Landscape without Gravity: A Memoir of Grief

LGBTQ+ Books

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

Confronting middle age the author reflects on family, loving, career, and that life is a bit of a cheat

The Habit of Loving

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Random House]

Habit of Loving

Random House Value Publishing

In a touching tribute to her brother, who died at age thirty-one, the author comes to terms with the difficult yet loving relationship she had with her sibling, evoking the tragic depth of feeling that pervades lives touched by the AIDS epidemic.

Landscape without gravity: A memoir of grief

Evokes the tragic depth of feeling that pervades the lives touched by the AIDS epidemic

Landscape Without Gravity: A Memoir of Grief

Death & Grief

Delphinium Books

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