Bibliograph

Nearing ninety, and other comedies of late life, Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Laura Gibson

Type

Label

Nearing ninety, and other comedies of late life, Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Laura Gibson

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Nearing ninety

Oclc number

1039394602

Responsibility statement

Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Laura Gibson

Sub title

and other comedies of late life

Summary

"The newest illustrated poetry collection in beloved author Judith Viorst's "decade" series (from It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty to Unexpectedly Eighty), exploring, with her signature savvy and humor, what it means to be an impending nonagenarian"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Intro; Dedication; Epigraph; Ninety; What Happened; Trading Places; It's Time; Still Kissing After All These Years; I Should Be Over This By Now; Dealing With It; The New Year's Eve Party; On Nearing Ninety; In Praise of the Double Bed; Telling My Age; What We Still Argue About; Right Now; Sightings; Man Mowing the Grass; The Graduation Brunch; In the Park; The Crestwood Village Retirement Community; Charlie Beerman; The Babes of the Upper East Side; At the Nursing Home; A Most Viable Widower; At the Japanese Restaurant; At the Playground; EndingsSome of the Things That Are Not on My Bucket ListMy Stuff; Lunch With Shirley; My Father, the Age I Am Now; The Remains of the Day; Not Especially Spiritual; Answers; A Warning (or Maybe a Love Song) for My Husband; Attitude; Another Way of Looking at Things; Lasts; My Legacy; About the Author; Copyright

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