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Author / Creator:	Henkin, Joshua, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
Description:	292 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Married people -- Fiction. Caregivers -- Mental health -- Fiction. Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Fiction. Married people. Caregivers -- Mental health. Alzheimer's disease -- Patients. Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. New York (State) -- New York -- Morningside Heights. Domestic fiction. Novels. Fiction. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12600529

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ISBN:	9781524748357 1524748358 9781524748364
Summary:	"When Pru Steiner met and married Spence Robin--her dazzling young hotshot English professor at Columbia--she thought she knew what she was signing up for. But thirty years later, when Spence develops early-onset Alzheimer's, the peaceful (if ambivalent) life Pru has built for herself begins to crumble. Spence is no longer the Great Man she fell in love with, and as his needs become more pronounced, Pru finds herself short on money, overwhelmed by responsibility and, for the first time in decades, in need of companionship. Further complicating things is Arlo, Spence's son from an earlier marriage, who feels he has never lived up to his father's expectations, and who might be Spence's best hope. Moving and deeply-felt, Morningside Heights is a warm-hearted story about love in the face of illness, about the support networks that surround us, and about what a marriage means when your partner is no longer the person you fell in love with"--
Other form:	Online version: Henkin, Joshua, Morningside heights First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2020. 9781524748364
Standard no.:	40030621692

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Summary:	A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Book * When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn't have anticipated. <br> <br> Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. The Great Man can't concentrate; he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books . With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. Meanwhile, Spence's estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father's last, best hope.<br> <br> Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. It's about the love between women and men, and children and parents; about the things we give up in the face of adversity; and about how to survive when life turns out differently from what we thought we signed up for.
Physical Description:	292 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:	9781524748357 1524748358 9781524748364