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Nearing ninety : and other comedies of late life / Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Laura Gibson.

by Viorst, Judith.

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Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Aging -- Humor -- Poetry.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Marriage -- Poetry.

9781501197086 (hc.)

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1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

xiii, 73 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Ninety -- What happened -- Trading Places -- It's Time -- Still kissing after all these years -- I should be over this by now -- Dealing with it -- The New Year's Eve party -- On nearing ninety -- In praise of the double bed -- Telling my age -- What we still argue about -- Right now -- Sightings -- Man mowing the grass -- The graduation brunch -- In the park -- The Crestwood Village Retirement Community -- Charlie Beerman -- The babes of the Upper East Side -- At the nursing home -- A most viable widower -- At the Japanese restaurant -- At the playground -- Endings -- Some of the things that are not on my bucket list -- My stuff -- Lunch With Shirley -- My father, the age I am now -- The remains of the day -- Not especially spiritual -- Answers -- A warning (or maybe a love song) for my husband -- Attitude -- Another way of looking at things -- Lasts -- My legacy.

"The newest illustrated poetry collection in beloved author Judith Viorst's "decade" series (from It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty to Unexpectedly Eighty), exploring, with her signature savvy and humor, what it means to be an impending nonagenarian."--From publisher.

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