Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness - Paperback

by Carolyn Ellis (Author)

In this revised and expanded edition of Final Negotiations-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.

Author Biography

​Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida, and author of numerous books, including Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories (with Arthur Bochner). She is the co-author of Autoethnography: Understanding Qualitative Research, and the co-editor of Handbook of Autoethnography, both with Stacy Holman Jones and Tony Adams.