OÂ´Nan, Stewart

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May 5, 2011

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What It's Like To Be An Elderly Widow, All 'Alone'

Stewart O'Nan's moodily comic novel, Emily, Alone, follows an 80-year-old woman as she navigates the minutia of everyday life. O'Nan explains how he got inside Emily's head -- and why he wanted to write about the daily indignities of getting older.

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