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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-10068486763X

ISBN-139780684867632

eBay Product ID (ePID)9038416950

Product Key Features

Book TitleSuddenly Sixty : and Other Shocks of Later Life

Number of Pages80 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicWomen Authors, Form / Limericks & Verse, Topic / Marriage & Family

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry, Humor

AuthorJudith Viorst

Book SeriesJudith Viorst's Decades Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7.6 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-033847

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal811/.54

Table Of ContentContents Suddenly Sixty It's Harder to Be Frisky Over Sixty The Blissful Couple The New Alphabet Old Friends Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep A Modest Proposal A Whole Other Stage A Brief History of Marriage In the Beginning After a While To Be Continued More on Marriage So My Husband and I Decided to Take a Car Trip Through New England A Very Very Brief History of Marriage In Response to a Request for an Apology Anniversary Dinner About His Retirement A Wedding Sonnet for the Next Generation The Children and Grandchildren Just a Few Words of Advice, Just a Few Helpful Hints Did I Do Something Wrong? Our Wonderful Annual Full-Fledged Family Vacation When I Watch Being a Grandparent Is the Best Revenge The Sweetest of Nights and the Finest of Days Other Shocks When Asked If I Thought That I'd Finally Got It Together Late Love To a Husband Who, After Forty-two Years, Dumped My Wonderful Friend for a Much Younger Woman Cemeteries and Other Plots A Thoroughly Modern Sixty Mortal Question Just Lucky I Guess If Only

SynopsisJudith 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 in her "decade" series, which make perfect gifts for birthdays, Mother's Day, graduation, Christmas, Chanukah, or at any time of year. Suddenly Sixty is a funny and touching book that speaks directly to the sixty-ish woman, inviting her to laugh about, sigh over, and come to hopeful terms with the complex issues of this decade of life. Among the poems in this charmingly illustrated collection are those exploring the joys--and strains--of children and grandchildren, and the intimacy of old friends who've 'known each other so long/We knew each other back when we were virgins." There are poems that tip their hat to mortality, wrestle with a husband's retirement --"He's coming with me when I shop at the supermarket/So I won't have to shop alone. I like alone."-- and acknowledge the fact that at this stage of life we'd "give up a night of wild rapture with Denzel Washington for a nice report on my next bone density test." Offering plenty of laughs, a few tears, and cover-to-cover truths, these are poems for everyone who would "rather say never say die than enough is enough." Every woman who has reached this decade will--rueful and smiling--find herself in the pages of this book., From the bestselling author ofForever Fiftycomes a new collection of poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty.Judith Viorst's "decade" books of verse -- includingIt's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty, How Did I Get to Be Forty,andForever Fifty-- have delighted millions of readers worldwide who relish her wit, warmth, and wisdom. Now here she is withSuddenly Sixty,a funny and touching book that speaks directly to the sixty-ish woman, inviting her to laugh about, sigh over, and come to hopeful terms with the complex issues of this decade of life.Among the poems in this charmingly illustrated collection are those exploring the joys -- and strains -- of children and grandchildren, and the intimacy of old friends who've "known each other so long/We knew each other back when we were virgins." There are poems that tip their hat to mortality, wrestle with a husband's retirement -- "He's coming with me when I shop at the supermarket/So I won't have to shop alone. I like alone." -- and acknowledge the fact that at this stage of life we'd "give up a night of wild rapture with Denzel Washington for a nice report on my next bone density test." Offering plenty of laughs, a few tears, and cover-to-cover truths, these are poems for everyone who would "rather say never say die than enough is enough." Every woman who has reached this decade will -- rueful and smiling -- find herself in the pages of this book.

LC Classification NumberPS3572.I6S8 2000