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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780374261221
- Book Title
- Senior Moments : Looking Back, Looking Ahead
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Education, Literary Criticism, Psychology
- Topic
- Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, Personal Growth / Happiness, Personal Growth / General, Aging, Literary, American / General, Emotions, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead. Spiegelman's expertly crafted book considers, with wisdom and elegance, how to be alert to the joys that brim from unexpected places even as death draws near. Senior Moments is a foray into the felicity and follies that age brings; a consideration of how and what one reads or rereads in late adulthood; the eagerness for, and disappointment in, long-awaited reunions, at which the past comes alive in the present. A clear-eyed book of memories, written in eight searching and courageously honest essays, Senior Moments is guaranteed to stimulate, stir, and restore.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374261229
ISBN-13
9780374261221
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219212239
Product Key Features
Book Title
Senior Moments : Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, Personal Growth / Happiness, Personal Growth / General, Aging, Literary, American / General, Emotions, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Education, Literary Criticism, Psychology
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3619.P5432z46 2016
Reviews
"Willard Spiegelman's Senior Moments is a work of deep seriousness and profundity delivered with lightness, moral poise, and a warm, witty, conversational humility. It is dulce et utile both--a balm to the reader thinking (or trying to think) about ageing and mortality; and a practical guide to some of the surprising, hardy-perennial pleasures that can unexpectedly survive and deepen, even as one's hours, days, months, years, dwindle. Spiegelman is cherishable in the same friendly, yet paradoxical, way Montaigne is--robustly sad, joyfully unillusioned, and yet alive to life in a manner that both consoles and delights."--Terry Castle "Aging is our universal condition: the only question is whether we approach our seniority kicking and screaming or proceed with some degree of style and, let us hope, capacity for happiness. Spiegelman's wise, witty, spirited essays show how we might work our way over to the style-and-happiness route, and are as good a guide for living well--at any age--as any other that I know."--Ben Fountain "They say we are living in a golden age of the personal essay, and it's true . . . Walk with Willard through New York, Tokyo, Dallas, his personal library, museums--walk with Willard through life."--Mark Oppenheimer "Spiegelman makes a reliable ambassador for the changes that advancing years bring, animated by gratitude and warmly ready for further inquiry: he might be giving, and making more achievable, Pope's famous advice: "Keep good humor still, whate'er we lose."--Stephen Burt "Willard Spiegelman is a wise old soul."--Raymond Sokolov "A book so vivid and personable that one has the impression of sitting across a dinner table from its author. He talks to us in a tone at once convivial and elegiac as he addresses some of life's biggest questions: What makes us happy? How can we make the best use of our brief lifetimes? To tackle these, Spiegelman brings to bear his vast erudition, humane intelligence, wit, and personal candor. The result is a beautiful and wise book about making daily life a meaningful pleasure."--Rhonda Garelick " Senior Moments takes us on a learned, witty meander from "Talk" to "Quiet," passing through Dallas, Japan, New York City, books, and art along the way. He treads so lightly, it takes a while to notice that this is a guidebook to aging and preparation--with grace and sweetness--for the final silence."--Rosanna Warren
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-048666
Intended Audience
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