Book Summary
From the bestselling author of Forever Fifty comes a new collection of
poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the
perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty.
Judith Viorst's "decade" books of verse -- including It's Hard
to Be Hip Over Thirty, How Did I Get to Be Forty, and Forever Fifty
-- have delighted millions of readers worldwide who relish her wit, warmth, and
wisdom. Now here she is with Suddenly Sixty, a funny and touching book
that speaks directly to the sixty-ish woman, inviting her to laugh about, sigh
over, and come to hopeful terms with the complex issues of this decade of life.
Among the poems in this charmingly illustrated collection are those exploring
the joys -- and strains -- of children and grandchildren, and the intimacy of
old friends who've "known each other so long/We knew each other back when
we were virgins." There are poems that tip their hat to mortality, wrestle
with a husband's retirement -- "He's coming with me when I shop at the
supermarket/So I won't have to shop alone. I like alone." -- and
acknowledge the fact that at this stage of life we'd "give up a night of
wild rapture with Denzel Washington for a nice report on my next bone density
test." Offering plenty of laughs, a few tears, and cover-to-cover truths,
these are poems for everyone who would "rather say never say die than
enough is enough." Every woman who has reached this decade will -- rueful
and smiling -- find herself in the pages of this book.
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Suddenly Sixty
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