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Old age is another country : a traveler's guide / by Page Smith.
- Title
- Old age is another country : a traveler's guide / by Page Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Page.
- Publication
- Freedom, CA : Crossing Press, c1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HQ1064.U5 S5917 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 225 p.; 20 cm.
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Naming old age. Old age viewed (p.12) -- Naming old age (p.26) -- Jokes about old age (p.29) -- Aphorisms, axioms and maxims, etc. (p.36) -- Youth and age (p.39) -- Sex and the old (p.42) -- The old and the medical establishment (p.52) -- Money and old age (p.64) -- Wife into mother (p.68) -- Grandmothers (p.74) -- Grandfathers (p.78) -- More on grandfathers (p.81) -- Guidelines. Guidelines (p.90) -- Blaming old age (p.93) -- Snapshot shock (p.96) -- College reunion (p.100) -- Places, spaces, faces and things (p.108) -- Strange accumulations (p.112) -- Nostalgia (p.117) -- Character (p.120) -- Odd appetites (p.123) -- Sleep and dreams (p.126) -- Laughter and tears (p.135) -- Old dancing (p.139) -- Old age in the media (p.143) -- Age as pain (p.146) -- Wrinkles (p.150).
- Cont.): Retirement. Greedy old people (p.156) -- Once I was young and now I am old (p.160) -- Old age update (p.164) -- Retirement (p.171) -- The old age surtax (p.181) -- Death. Thinking about death (p.186) -- Obits (p.190) -- Death rehearsal (p.194) -- Birthday meditations (p.197) -- Famous last words (p.200) -- Living as long as you expect to (p.203) -- Favorite exits (p.207) -- Catching up (p.209) -- Life on hold (p.212) -- Joy and love are the answers. Surprised by joy (p.218) -- Love and let love (p.222).
- ISBN
- 0895948028 (cloth)
- 0895947765 (paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95020303^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library