Judith Viorst

Forever Fifty (eBook, ePUB)

And Other Negotiations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Judith Viorst is known and loved by readers of all ages, for children's books such as Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; nonfiction titles, including the bestseller Necessary Losses; and her collections of humorous poetry, which make perfect gifts for birthdays, Mother's Day, graduation, Christmas, Chanukah, or at any time of year.

Now Judith Viorst looks at what it's like to be (gulp) fifty.

Writing with the warmth and authenticity that have become her trademarks, Viorst once again demonstrates her uncanny ability to transform our daily realities into poems that make us laugh with recognition. Whether her subject is the decline of the body ("It's hard to be devil-may-care/When there are pleats in your derrière") or future aspirations ("Before I go, I'd like to have high cheekbones./I'd like to talk less like New Jersey, and more like Claire Bloom"), she always speaks directly to our condition. Her funny, compassionate poems shed a reassuring light on the fine art of aging, and will delight anyone who is now (or forever) fifty.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, I, LT, L, LR, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501105876
• Artikelnr.: 41811591

Autorenporträt

Judith Viorst is the author of the beloved Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold some four million copies; the Lulu books, including Lulu and the Brontosaurus; the New York Times bestseller Necessary Losses; four musicals; and poetry for children and adults. Her most recent books of poetry include What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About? and Nearing Ninety. She lives in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
FIFTY
You Say You Want to Know How Old I Am?
You Say You Want to Know How the Children Are Doing?
Wild Thing
Exercising Options
Postmortems
Confusion
To a Middle-Aged Friend Considering Adultery with a Younger Man
Happiness
STILL FIFTY
By My Age
Second Marriage
Brief Encounter at the Delicatessen
They're Back
Christmas Presents for Fifty Years and Over
And Now You Want to Know If There Is Anything Good to Say about Getting
Older
Eight Basic Facts about Memory
How Can People Want to Bring Children into This Terrible World?
FOREVER FIFTY
Before I Go
You Might As Well Laugh
Some Advice from a Mother to Her Married Son
When Asked to What They Owe the Success of Their Marriage, He and She
Completely Agree that Love Is Accommodation
Medical Tests
More Questions
A Sexy Old Lady
The Pleasures of an Ordinary Life