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Berkley
May 1997
On Sale: May 4, 1997
336 pages
ISBN: 0425157938
EAN: 9780425157930
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
Not everyone--not even every feminist--holds to the belief
that age bringswisdom, power, and its own beauty. Faced with
turning 50, Letty Cottin Pogrebin,founder of Ms. and author
of several books including Growing Up Free,says her
reactions ranged "from astonishment to anger, from confusion
to curiosity,from denial to disgust." Using herself as a
compass and adding many other well- known voices, Pogrebin's
irreverent book takes on friendship, sex, love,
dieting,mothering adults, the physical and emotional
depredations of aging, and mortality. Ratherthan stubbornly
toeing the line on spurning plastic surgery, for example,
she thoughtfullyexplores "the tension between artificiality
and authenticity." In the end, sheconcludes, one can devote
one's remaining years to lamenting and running after
lostyouth or put that time to far better uses. Despite a
glib, overly playful tone that trivializescertain issues,
Pogrebin's desire to share downplayed truths is a boon.
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