The Last Gift of Time
Life Beyond Sixty
Published on 20. July 2011
240 pages
978-0-307-80214-9 (ISBN)
Description
From the author of Writing a Woman's Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond.
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever-insightful Heilbrun muses on the emotional and intellectual insights that brought her "to choose each day for now, to live." There are reflections on her new house and her sturdy, comfortable marriage; sweet solitude and the pleasures of sex at an advanced age; the fascination with e-mail and the joy of discovering unexpected friends. Even the encroachments of loss, pain, and sadness that come with age cannot spoil Heilbrun's moveable feast. They are merely the price of bountiful living.
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever-insightful Heilbrun muses on the emotional and intellectual insights that brought her "to choose each day for now, to live." There are reflections on her new house and her sturdy, comfortable marriage; sweet solitude and the pleasures of sex at an advanced age; the fascination with e-mail and the joy of discovering unexpected friends. Even the encroachments of loss, pain, and sadness that come with age cannot spoil Heilbrun's moveable feast. They are merely the price of bountiful living.
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Ballantine Books Inc.
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Bantam Books
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Person
Carolyn G. Heilbrun is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emeriti at Columbia University. In addition to her many works of criticism, which include the bestselling Writing a Woman's Life and Hamlet's Mother and Other Women, she is also the author of the acclaimed Kate Fansler series of mysteries under the name of Amanda Cross.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Note to the Reader
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Preface
- The Small House
- The Dog Who Came to Stay
- Time
- A Unique Person
- England
- Sex and Romance
- Memory
- On Not Wearing Dresses
- Unmet Friends
- Listening to the Young(Er)
- Living with Men
- Sadness
- The Family Lost and Found
- On Mortality
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
