{"product_id":"final-negotiations-a-story-of-love-loss-and-chronic-illness-9781439917169","title":"Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness","description":"In this revised and expanded edition of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinal Negotiations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e-a personal account of caring for her partner, Gene Weinstein, and then coping with losing him to chronic emphysema- Ellis reflects back on her experiences as a caregiver, focusing on identity, vulnerability, emotions, and the aging process of an engaged academic. Now, decades later, she reconsiders who she was then, and how she has continued to be affected both by these events and by writing about them. She contemplates how she might act, think, and feel if she were going through the caregiving process again, now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Taking an autoethnographic perspective, Ellis focuses on her feeling and thinking self in relationships, narrating particular lived experiences that offer a gateway into understanding interpersonal and cultural life. In her new epilogue, \"From New Endings to New Beginnings,\" Ellis describes her changed identity and how Final Negotiations informs her life and her understanding of how she and her current partner grow older together. She hopes her book provides companionship and comfort to readers who also will suffer loss in their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Ellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439917169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e​Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida, and author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eEvocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories \u003c\/i\u003e(with Arthur Bochner). She is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eAutoethnography: Understanding Qualitative Research\u003c\/i\u003e, and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Autoethnography, \u003c\/i\u003e both with Stacy Holman Jones and Tony Adams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44715302879347,"sku":"9781439917169","price":50.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5c070fce-585c-4efe-8677-9b51687b43b3.jpg?v=1775841502","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/final-negotiations-a-story-of-love-loss-and-chronic-illness-9781439917169","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}