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Nearing ninety : and other comedies of late life

Title
Nearing ninety : and other comedies of late life / Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Laura Gibson.
Author
Viorst, Judith
Publication
  • New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
Gibson, Laura
Description
xiii, 73 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
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"--
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Alternative Title
Poems.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry.
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; Endings.
  • Some 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
Call Number
JFC 19-208
ISBN
  • 9781501197086
  • 1501197088
LCCN
2018041924
OCLC
1039394602
Author
Viorst, Judith, author.
Title
Nearing ninety : and other comedies of late life / Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Laura Gibson.
Publisher
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Added Author
Gibson, Laura, illustrator.
Other Form:
Online version: Viorst, Judith, author. Nearing ninety New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019 9781501197123 (DLC) 2018042860
Research Call Number
JFC 19-208
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