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Pottier, Anna.
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Layton, Irving, 1912-2006 -- Marriage.
Layton, Irving, 1912-2006 -- Health.
Pottier, Anna.
Poets, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors' spouses -- Canada -- Biography.
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Pottier, Anna.
Layton, Irving, 1912-2006 -- Marriage.
Layton, Irving, 1912-2006 -- Health.
Pottier, Anna.
Poets, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors' spouses -- Canada -- Biography.
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Good
as
gone
:
my
life
with
Irving
Layton
/ Anna Pottier.
by
Pottier, Anna.
Dundurn Press, 2015.
Call #:
921 L429p
Subjects
Layton
,
Irving
, 1912-2006 -- Marriage.
Layton
,
Irving
, 1912-2006 -- Health.
Pottier, Anna.
Poets, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors' spouses -- Canada -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781459728561 (pbk.)
Description:
332 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"
Irving
Layton
's last wife shares the story of her
life
with the acclaimed poet. While a student at Dalhousie University, Anna Pottier attended a poetry reading featuring
Irving
Layton
. Walking out of the auditorium that night, she knew two things: she wanted more than ever to be a writer, and she wanted to be with
Layton
. At the age of twenty-three she became
Layton
's fifth and final wife; she was forty-eight years his junior. She shared the entirety of his world and was intimately involved in the writing and publication of such books as The Gucci Bag, Fortunate Exile, and Waiting for the Messiah. She accompanied
Layton
on his last major overseas reading tour, broke bread with Pierre Trudeau and Leonard Cohen, met other luminaries, and watched
Layton
write his very last poem. But slowly,
Layton
was changing. In 1992, a doctor put names to these changes: Parkinson's disease and early-stage Alzheimer's.
Life
carried on, but once-easy things grew more difficult, and then the day came in 1995, after nearly fourteen years, when Pottier had nothing left to give. Canadian poet
Irving
Layton
(1912–2006) was born in Romania to Jewish parents. His family moved to Montreal in 1913. Anna Pottier is a Nova Scotian Acadian writer and painter"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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