All of This

A Memoir of Death and Desire

Rebecca Woolf

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HarperOne
01 September 2022

Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Gender studies: women; Coping with death & bereavement

“Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir.”—ROXANE GAY

“Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.”—JENNY LAWSON

“Disturbing and profound, this intimate book also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love...

A provocative and memorable work.”—Kirkus Reviews

After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died.

In All of This, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death—and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own.

Stunning, compelling, and brilliantly nuanced, All of This is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame—as a mother, a widow, and a sexual being—and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief.

By: Rebecca Woolf
Imprint: HarperOne
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 403g
ISBN: 9780063052673
ISBN 10: 0063052679
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rebecca Woolf is an author, writer and award-winning blogger who has contributed to publications including Refinery29, Huffington Post, Romper and Parenting. She lives in Los Angeles with her son and three daughters.

Reviews for All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire

beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir - ROXANE GAY, bestselling author of Bad Feminist An authentic and profound book on the complexities of being human. Painfully beautiful, wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed. - JENNY LAWSON, bestselling author of Furiously Happy I started reading All of This as soon as it arrived, and quickly realized that it was going to have my full and feverish attention until I'd devoured the whole thing. It's truly a rare combination of gripping story and immaculate, genius-in-her-prime writing. I had to re-do my makeup like 4 times during the process of reading. I just kept crying. All of This reminded me that honesty saves lives, and that it's an act of love to be truthful about feelings and experiences. - DIABLO CODY, Oscar Award Winning screenwriter and producer of Juno, Jennifer's Body, and Young Adult This book is an absolute hurricane force of truth and beauty. This book takes our conceptions of love and happiness and throws them into the inferno of reality. Rebecca's writing is bloody, beautiful, and tender, All of This not only cracks the surface of love and relationships it spelunks into the depths of the human heart. No one is spared and no one ought to be. This book is a triumph. - LYZ LENZ, author of Belabored and God Land, and contributing essayist to Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay Woolf takes readers on a journey that is nothing if not unforgettable... brutally honest and empowering tale of a woman who emerges from her marriage and her husband's final illness like a butterfly from a chrysalis-not neatly or painlessly, but nonetheless beautiful to behold... Be prepared to laugh, to cry ...readers will definitely be glad they got on this roller coaster with her. - Library Journal Stark, real, and very brave, Rebecca Woolf's All of This is one of the most true books I've ever read about grief and the relationships that bring it to us. Add to cart now because this astounding book is going to blow your mind. - Claire Bidwell Smith, author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief Disturbing and profound, this intimate book about one woman's path to personal liberation also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love A provocative and memorable work of autobiography. - Kirkus Reviews