9780393025613 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A retired professor and widowed husband of Iris Murdoch describes his struggle to build a new life for himself after the death of his wife of forty-four years, his fate as a man in his mid-seventies beginning life anew, and the dozens of well-meaning women offering comfort--and more.