A Widow's Story
Joyce Carol Oates - Short Review of 'A Widow's Story' I have come to JCO lately, and this memoir is breathtaking in its ability to analyse in minute detail the emotional response to the sudden and unexpected death of her husband, Ray Smith who was an academic and editor of the Ontario Review. JCO’s prose is tight, controlled and sharp even as she veers after his death from anxiety to fearfulness, panic and rage and then into mute depression. Something like 80 chapters I weath