Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have - Softcover

Viorst, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684844958 ISBN 13: 9780684844954

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 2003

Synopsis

"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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Review:

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 is the author of the beloved Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold some four million copies; the Lulu books, including Lulu and the Brontosaurus; the New York Times bestseller Necessary Losses; four musicals; and poetry for children and young adults. Her most recent books of poetry include What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About? and Nearing Ninety.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0684844958
• ISBN 13: 9780684844954
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 447