How did I get to be forty & other atrocities / by Judith Viorst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viorst, Judith.

Contributor:

Thomas Lask Poetry Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor)

Physical Description:

30 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Advance uncorrected proofs.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, [1976]

Summary:

And so you've reached that time in life when you're starting to pick investments over adventure, clean over scenic, comfortable over intense; when, even though in your heart of hearts you're only seventeen, the rest of you is (how did it happen?) forty. The wise and witty lady of It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty is here to get you through those forty-ish years with poems that reflect our common shared experience. So let her help you take a look at that decade of sagging kneecaps and college reunions and fantasies of love in the afternoon; at Maoist kids, cholesterol counts, adult-education courses and other atrocities - which somehow just don't hurt so much when you laugh. A marvelous book filled with insight and warmth, How Did I Get to Be 40 ... & Other Atrocities is Judith Viorst at her best.

Contents:

40

The Truth 2

No More Babies 4

The Good Daughter 6

There Isn't a Thing to Worry About 8

Beauty Is Only Skin Deep 10

College Reunion 12

Among Other Thoughts on Our Wedding Anniversary 14

Mid-Life Crisis 16

Other atrocities

The Whole Truth 20

Leonard the Liberated Husband 22

Life Isn't Fair 24

Secret Meetings 26

Some People's Children 28

Eating My Heart Out 30

Open House 32

Three in the Morning 34

Getting by

Nothing But the Truth 38

The Sensuous Woman 40

Adult Education 42

Self-Improvement Program 44

Another Wife's Husband 46

Twenty Questions 48

Alone 50

Facing the Facts 52.

ISBN:

0671223666

OCLC:

890938615