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How did I get to be forty ... & other atrocities / by Judith Viorst.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Viorst, Judith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 53 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- 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:
- The truth
- No more babies
- The good daughter
- There isn't a thing to worry about
- Beauty is only skin deep
- College reunion
- Among other thoughts on our wedding anniversary
- Mid-life crisis
- The whole truth
- Leonard the liberated husband
- Life isn't fair
- Secret meetings
- Some people's children
- Eating my heart out
- Open house
- Three in the morning
- Nothing but the truth
- The sensuous woman
- Adult education
- Self-improvement program
- Another wife's husband
- Twenty questions
- Alone
- Facing the facts.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Viorst, Judith. How did I get to be forty ... & other atrocities.
- ISBN:
- 0671223666
- 9780671223663
- OCLC:
- 2318326
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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