{"product_id":"im-too-young-to-be-seventy-and-other-delusions-hardcover","title":"I'm Too Young to Be Seventy: And Other Delusions - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Viorst\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe beloved author of \u003ci\u003eForever\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFifty\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSuddenly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSixty\u003c\/i\u003e tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with wry good humor. Fans of Viorst's funny, touching, and wise decades poems will love these verses filled with witty advice and reflections on marriage, milestones, and middle-aged children.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eViorst explores, among the many other issues of this stage of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth, how we can stay married though thermostatically incompatible, and the joys of grandparenthood and shopping. Readers will nod with rueful recognition when she asks, \"Am I required to think of myself as a basically shallow woman because I feel better when my hair looks good?,\" when she presses a few helpful suggestions on her kids because \"they may be middle aged, but they're still my children,\" and when she graciously--but not too graciously--selects her husband's next mate in a poem deliciously subtitled \"If I Should Die Before I Wake, Here's the Wife You Next Should Take.\" Though Viorst acknowledges she is definitely not a good sport about the fact that she is mortal, her poems are full of the pleasures of life right now, helping us come to terms with the passage of time, encouraging us to keep trying to fix the world, and inviting us to consider \"drinking wine, making love, laughing hard, caring hard, and learning a new trick or two as part of our job description at seventy.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eI'm Too Young to Be Seventy\u003c\/i\u003e is a joy to read and makes a heartwarming gift for anyone who has reached or is soon to reach that--it's not so bad after all--seventh decade.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 7.86 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336214372717,"sku":"9780743267748","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/NWJ3ZlJhTWc5aWpYOVJsV0IwNEJXdz09.webp?v=1778915307","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/im-too-young-to-be-seventy-and-other-delusions-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}