How Did I Get to Be Forty
And Other Atrocities
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2014
64 pages
978-1-5011-0588-3 (ISBN)
Description
And so you've reached that time in life when you're stating 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 these 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.
The wise and witty lady of It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty is here to get you through these 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.
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Judith Viorst is the author of the beloved Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold some four million copies; the Lulu books, including Lulu and the Brontosaurus; the New York Times bestseller Necessary Losses; four musicals; and poetry for children and adults. Her most recent books of poetry include What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About? and Nearing Ninety. She lives in Washington, DC.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- 40
- 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
- Other Atrocities
- 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
- Getting By
- Nothing But the Truth
- The Sensuous Woman
- Adult Education
- Self-Improvement Program
- Another Wife's Husband
- Twenty Questions
- Alone
- Facing the Facts
- About Judith Viorst
- Copyright
