I'm Too Young To Be Seventy: And Other Delusions Judith Viorst
I'm Too Young to Be Seventy is a joy to read and makes a heartwarming gift for anyone who has reached or is soon to reach that -- it's not so bad after all -- seventh decade.
Free Press
September 2005
80 pages ISBN: 0743267745 Hardcover Add to Wish List
The beloved bestselling author of Forever Fifty and
Suddenly Sixty now tackles the ins and outs of becoming a
septuagenarian with her usual wry good humor.
Fans of Judith Viorst's funny, touching, and wise poems
about turning thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty will love
this new volume for the woman who deeply believes she is
too young to be seventy, "too young in my heart and my
soul, if not in my thighs."
Viorst explores, among the many other issues of this stage
of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth, how we can
stay married though thermostatically incompatible, and the
joys of grandparenthood and shopping. Readers will nod with
rueful recognition when she asks, "Am I required to think
of myself as a basically shallow woman because I feel
better when my hair looks good?," when she presses a few
helpful suggestions on her kids because "they may be middle
aged, but they're still my children," and when she
graciously -- but not too graciously -- selects her
husband's next mate in a poem deliciously subtitled "If I
Should Die Before I Wake, Here's the Wife You Next Should
Take." Though Viorst acknowledges she is definitely not a
good sport about the fact that she is mortal, her poems are
full of the pleasures of life right now, helping us come to
terms with the passage of time, encouraging us to keep
trying to fix the world, and inviting us to
consider "drinking wine, making love, laughing hard, caring
hard, and learning a new trick or two as part of our job
description at seventy."
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