Making the best of what's left when we're too old to get the chairs reupholstered
A witty and poignant exploration of the joys and sorrows of life's twilight years- one that leaves us laughing, pondering, and grateful for the moments we have left. In a career that has spanned more than fifty years, Judith Viorst now writes about life's 'Final Fifth,' those who are eighty to one h...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2025.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- About this book: A valentine for the extremely married
- Home: Our sensible safe retirement community
- Old: Losing it
- What's left: Grow old along with me and my home health aide
- A little while: Stop being dead
- Counting the dead: What else I remember
- Afterward: An afterlife
- Happiness: Getting out the vote
- Loneliness: A Jewish widow's country-western love song
- Community: Princess Margaret, Pearl Harbor, "daffodils," etc.
- Wisdom: Prescription.
