The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty

Heilbrun, Carolyn G.

ISBN 10: 038531325X / ISBN 13: 9780385313254

Published by The Dial Press (edition ), 1997

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Seller Inventory # 038531325X-11-1

Synopsis:

The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on her youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life.

From the Inside Flap: oman, Carolyn Heilbrun made a resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would lend clean closure to a life well lived, and would keep her from the many tragedies of aging--becoming a burden to her children, witnessing the deterioration of her body, falling prey to a crippling disease. But on the advent of her seventieth birthday, she looked back on the past ten years and found, to her surprise, that her sixties had been the happiest decade of all: after fifty years, her marriage had matured into a happy balance of companionship and respect for solitude; she had developed deep friendships with her grown children and a small circle of peers; she had mastered a highly successful career as a scholar and writer. In the poignant, essayistic writing that best showcases her elegant talent and provocative mind, Carolyn Heilbrun celebrates the many pleasures of a mature life.



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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
Publisher: The Dial Press (edition )
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good