| Description |
187 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Poems are interspersed between the chapters. |
| Contents |
Eighty-four years -- Foreword -- No longer -- The year I turned eighty -- The bed -- I am not old -- When I was sick -- Attraction -- Can there be more to say -- The cane, the walker, the wheelchair -- Chrysalis -- Late in live love -- I loved you when you did the dishes -- Fat backs -- Hands -- The manicure, my mother -- December 21, 2016 -- Downsizing -- Photo section -- I am multiples -- Finding a seat -- Teeth -- Alone -- Autumn -- Independence -- Ants -- Searching for the past -- Christmas cookies -- My brother's death -- Planets -- My fleeting senses -- New Years' Eve at Wake Robin -- How will I die? -- Last spring -- The lake -- A love poem -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
"Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her newest book, a memoir entitled Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, the topic is aging, but she looks well beyond the physical tolls and explores the emotional ones as well. And she has had an extraordinary life: governor, ambassador, feminist, wife, mother, professor, poet, and much, much more. Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties takes a close and incisive look at what it is like to grow old."--Provided by publisher. |
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Kunin, Madeleine.
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Kunin, Madeleine. (OCoLC)fst00238602
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Governors -- Vermont -- Biography.
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Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography.
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Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
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Older women -- United States -- Biography.
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Aging -- Social aspects -- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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Aging -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00800348
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Ambassadors. (OCoLC)fst00806713
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Feminists. (OCoLC)fst00922831
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Governors. (OCoLC)fst00945704
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Older women. (OCoLC)fst01199159
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Vermont. (OCoLC)fst01204305
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9780999499597 (hardback) |
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0999499599 (hardback) |
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