{"product_id":"9781459728547","title":"Good as Gone: My Life with Irving Layton","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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124601471216,"sku":"9781459728547","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781459728547_p0.jpg?v=1763878258","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781459728547","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}