Letter to D: A Love Story

Letter to D: A Love Story by Gorz, André. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780745646770.

Youre 82 years old. Youve shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet youre still beautiful, graceful and desirable – so begins André Gorzs open love letter to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As one of Frances leading post-war philosophers, André Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to his dying wife. In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. André Gorz and his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not live without one another. An international bestseller, Letter to D is the ultimate love story – and all the more poignant because its true.