Grieving A Love Story - Large Print Author:Ruth Coughlin, Michael Dorris G.K. Hall Large Print Inspirational Collection — Ruth and William Coughlin married at mid-life and spent eight happy years together until June 1991, when Bill, a judge and the author of 15 novels ( Death Penalty ), was diagnosed with liver cancer. Coughlin's book differs from others of this genre in not romanticizing the suffer... more »ing she and her husband endured.
The Coughlins alternated between confidence and despair until it became clear that there was no more hope. After her husband's death, the author embarked on a mourning that she describes as "a narcissism that borders on the pathological." Offering no panaceas, her candor demonstrates that death and loss are facts of life.« less