The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty

Heilbrun, Carolyn G.

ISBN 10: 038531325X / ISBN 13: 9780385313254

Editore: The Dial Press, 1997

Codice articolo 038531325X-3-20689980

Riassunto:

The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on her youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno: oman, Carolyn Heilbrun made a resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would lend clean closure to a life well lived, and would keep her from the many tragedies of aging--becoming a burden to her children, witnessing the deterioration of her body, falling prey to a crippling disease. But on the advent of her seventieth birthday, she looked back on the past ten years and found, to her surprise, that her sixties had been the happiest decade of all: after fifty years, her marriage had matured into a happy balance of companionship and respect for solitude; she had developed deep friendships with her grown children and a small circle of peers; she had mastered a highly successful career as a scholar and writer. In the poignant, essayistic writing that best showcases her elegant talent and provocative mind, Carolyn Heilbrun celebrates the many pleasures of a mature life.



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Titolo: The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
Casa editrice: The Dial Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good