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Forever Fifty
by Judith Viorst
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1996-09-03)
ISBN: 0684832372
EAN: 9780684832371
Dewey Decimal #: 811.54
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 64 pages
SKU: 70920153
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride. This is a new, unread copy with a publisher mark.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Her bestselling verse has unerringly captured our follies and our foibles over the decades. Now Judith Viorst, in a witty and beautifuUy illustrated book of poems, looks at what it's like to be (gulp) fifty. Judith Viorst's poetry collections, which include When Did I Stop Being Twenty..., It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty..., and How Did I Get to Be Forty..., have articulated our growing pains from single life to midlife, and have continued to delight millions of readers worldwide. Writing with the warmth and authenticity that have become her trademarks, Viorst once again demonstrates her uncanny ability to transform our daily realities into poems that make us laugh with recognition. Whether her subject is the decline of the body ("It's hard to be devil-may-care/When there are pleats in your derrière") or future aspirations ("Before I go, I'd like to have high cheekbones./I'd like to talk less like New Jersey, and more like Claire Bloom"), she always speaks directly to our condition. Her funny, compassionate poems shed a reassuring light on the fine art of aging, and will delight anyone who is now (or forever) fifty.
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Customer Reviews
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Very dated
Rating  (3)
Date: 2010-02-12
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was not nearly as entertaining as her other books - it was disappointing. The others ("Suddenly Sixty etc.") were more up-to-date than this one, regardless of copyright date. This one shows it's age.
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Forever Fifty
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-04-02
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Judith Viorst has produced a poetry book every decade since she did thirty, and is now up to seventy! The poems are about relationships with family and friends. Many are humorous, many are touching, and all very readable. She really hits home with her lines, and the reader can relate with no trouble at all.
She also writes children's books and has written a mystery full of wonderful characters! All three genres are exceedingly good.
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witty wisdom
Rating  (4)
Date: 2009-03-08
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was recommended to me by an almost 80 friend and I sent it sight unseen to a 50 something friend. Both absolutely love it. So I guess I have no choice but to get it.
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Amusing
Rating (3)
Date: 2009-02-19
A quick fun read. A few very entertaining pieces, but many others were just silly.
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Very light verse
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-05-24
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
This small book of verses contains Judith Viorst's reflections on herself and her world as she turns fifty. The book is advertised as 'poetry' but if poetry we mean "the deepest expression of feeling in words" this is not poetry at all.
These are mild thoughts grouped into little stanzas centering usually on a single theme. One most interesting one centers on ' what happened to the children' and simply states the very varied and idiosyncratic career and love choices made by what I suspect are not only her children but those of her friends and neighbors. Another , the opening poem focuses on the whole business of being asked how old one is, and the hidden intentions behind the question. Another poem is about the ' second marriage' and the calculations and considerations involved in it of a friend. The final poem which truly epitomizes the spirit of the whole book is called " The Pleasures of Ordinary Life" and focuses on the consolations of good health , and small pleasures when one reaches an age when the big violent passionate dramas of life are no longer there.
These verses are often light and can be mildly amusing. They are not profound, deep and moving as the best poetry ordinarily is.
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