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Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard. By Himself: The Older Man’s Experience of Widowhood. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2011

Kate Davidson
Kate Davidson*
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University of Surrey
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 156 - 158
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2011

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