02502cam a2200421 i 4500 1169768995 TxAuBib 20240315120000.0 171012t20182017||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017049152 9781432847418 1432847414 (OCoLC)1006534025 TxAuBib rda Maynard, Joyce, 1953-, author. The best of us : a memoir / Joyce Maynard. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018. ©2017. 661 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike press large print basic "In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn't mind the mess she made in the kitchen. Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even after they married, Joyce resolved that no one could alter her course of determined independence. Then, just after their one-year wedding anniversary, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed, as they battled his illness together, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple--'to be a true partner and to have one.' This is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance, a marriage cut short by tragedy, and Joyce's return to living alone on new terms, The Best of Us is a heart-wrenching, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss."--Jacket. 20240315. Barringer, James A. Maynard, Joyce, 1953- Authors, American 20th century Biography. Pancreas Cancer Patients United States Biography. Middle-aged persons Biography. Married people United States Biography. Loss (Psychology.) Autobiographies. Nonfiction. Large print books. lcgft Thorndike press large print basic.