{"product_id":"7090039725848","title":"Separate Bed","description":"\u003cb\u003eAfter falling in love with and marrying a man two lifetimes older than her, Irving Layton’s last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Gucci Bag\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFortunate Exile,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood as Gone\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling, at times searing, account of one of the most unusual love stories of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redeye Music Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096430711024,"sku":"7090039725848","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/7090039725848","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}