"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

PART ONE -- Wooing and Wedding -- Honeymoon — the first awareness -- The first second thoughts -- The first pregnancy and Isabelle -- Confinement — the first son -- The high-speed delivery and the premie -- It's Harriet, and Isabelle is furious -- Depressions strike -- Learning family thought psychoanalysis -- The Robey's financial secret is out -- The social-work student -- Father — the first death -- Freedom and marriage renewed -- The children marry — empty nest -- Deaths come fast -- Professional and personal heights -- The sea calls, the storm smashes -- The many marriages -- Communication -- Widowhood -- The back strikes back -- PART TWO -- Winter and the dance are good -- The eye and the winter are bad -- The barn revisited -- Up and down with eye and book -- Lama -- College revisited -- La giaconda and I (eye) -- Alec remembered -- Reprise and reprieve.