Necessary Losses - Softcover

Viorst, J.

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449911527 ISBN 13: 9780449911525

Publisher: Fawcett, 1996

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"This perceptive book should absorb and enrich anyone who admits to being human."
Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Essayist Judith Viorst, who has humorously eased our journey to middle age, now turns her considerable talents to a more serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are an inevitable and necessary part of life. Arguing persuasively that through the loss of our mothers' protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper persepctive, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life, Judith Viorst has wirtten a life-affirming and life-changing book.
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Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"

One of the most sensitive and comprehensive books about the human condition I have read in a long time.

Benjamin Spock, M.D.

This perceptive book should absorb and enrich anyone who admits to being human.

United Press International

The kind of book that belongs in every household. It is simply healthy to have around.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" One of the most sensitive and comprehensive books about the human condition I have read in a long time.

United Press International The kind of book that belongs in every household. It is simply healthy to have around.

Benjamin Spock, M.D. This perceptive book should absorb and enrich anyone who admits to being human.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People One of the most sensitive and comprehensive books about the human condition I have read in a long time.

About the Author:

Judith Viorst was born and brought up in New Jersey and has lived in Washington, DC, since 1960, when she married Milton Viorst, a political writer. A graduate in 1981 of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Viorst writes in many different areas: science books, children's chapter and picture books--including the beloved Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold some four million copies; adult fiction and nonfiction including the New York Times bestseller, Necessary Losses; poetry for children and adults, and four musicals. Her most recent book of poetry for children, What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About? was published in 2016. Lulu Is Getting a Sister is the fourth book in the Lulu series.

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