Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry

by Rachel Hadas

Book Overview

" A] thoughtful and lucid tale of love, companionship, and heartbreaking illness." --Lydia Davis

In 2004 Rachel Hadas's husband, George Edwards, a composer and professor of music at Columbia University, was diagnosed with early-onset dementia at the age of sixty-one. Strange Relation is her account of "losing" George. Her narrative begins when George's illness can no longer be ignored, and ends in 2008 soon after his move to a dementia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589880617
• ISBN13: 9781589880610
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Paul Dry Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.7"