Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed: Reflections on Aging (For Anyone Who Happens To) - Couverture rigide

Campion, Nardi Reeder

 
9781584655268: Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed: Reflections on Aging (For Anyone Who Happens To)
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ISBN 10 : 1584655267 ISBN 13 : 9781584655268
Editeur : University Press of New England, 2006

Synopsis

From the heartbreak of giving up one's driver's license to the joys of geriatric dating, Nardi Reeder Campion brings her distinctive mix of wit and candor to the subject of aging. The eighty-eight-year-old author approaches the challenges of growing older with imagination and an undimmed zest for life, from exercises that improve one's memory ("for me, memory is the thing I forget with") to creative solutions to being careless in rural America (she does not recommend hitch-hiking). Campion considers with amusement both the things that change (society's attitudes toward sex) and those that remain the same (her own inability to use the f-word). She shares her love of tea and travel, her pleasure in family and friends, and her ongoing frustration at her penchant for losing items large and small, worthless and precious. And she introduces us to some notable people she has met along the way whose influence she continues to feel. Whether inviting her retirement home neighbours to watch a belly-dancer or taking a long-dreamed-of trip to Paris and Normandy at eighty-six, Campion shows that aging can be both funny and fun. If you or someone you know happens to be aging, this book is for you.

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À propos de l'auteur

NARDI REEDER CAMPION is the author of Everyday Matters (UPNE, 2004) and of seven other books, including Bringing Up the Brass by Sergeant Marty Maher (the basis for the John Ford movie The Long Gray Line) and Mother Ann Lee, Morning Star of the Shakers (reissued by UPNE, 1990). She has written articles for the New York Times (including ten oped pieces), the Boston Globe, Reader's Digest, the Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, Yankee, and other publications. Her column "Everyday Matters" has appeared in the Valley News for twenty-five years.

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Éditeur
University Press of New England
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1584655267
ISBN 13 
9781584655268
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
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