Review
From the book jacket: In
an age in which women are expected to be high achievers,
thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a
good widow--a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of
widow. Alas, Sophie is more of a Jack Daniels kind.
Self-medicating with cartons of ice-cream for breakfast,
breaking down in the produce section at the supermarket,
showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny slippers - soon
she's not only lost her husband, but her job, her house, and
her waistline.
Desperate to reinvent her life, she moves to Ashland, Oregon
- but instead of the way it is in the movies (heroine being...
Beyond the Book
Elisabeth Kubler Ross was
born in 1926 in Zurich, Switzerland and died
of natural causes in 2004 in Arizona. Her
ground breaking and bestselling book,
On
Death and Dying, (1969) did much to
change the treatment of terminally ill
patients. She was compelled to write
it while working as a doctor in hospitals in
New York, Colorado and Chicago, where she
was appalled by the standard treatment for
dying...
