The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty - Brossura

Heilbrun, Carolyn G.

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ISBN 10: 0345422953 ISBN 13: 9780345422958

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 1998

Riassunto

In a best-selling study by the author of Reinventing Womanhood, the literary critic describes the emotional and intellectual pleasures of life after sixty, from making new friends to the peace of solitude. Reprint.

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L'autore

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.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina

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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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345422953
• ISBN 13: 9780345422958
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240