| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 73 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| 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. |
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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 |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Aging -- Humor -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Gibson, Laura (Illustrator), illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Viorst, Judith, author. Nearing ninety New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019 9781501197123 (DLC) 2018042860 |
| ISBN |
9781501197086 (hardcover) |
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1501197088 (hardcover) |
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