Getting Over Getting Older

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GETTING OVER GEHING OLDER
"With this book, Letty Pogrebin becomes your new best — and smartest — friençi, taking you through all of this aging stuff with common sense, candor, and warmth."
— Bett/ Rollin, author of Last Wish
"Letty Cottin Pogrebin has looked at aging from the outside (through other writers) and the Inside (her own life experiences) and crafted a guide for all of us who think we're thirtysomething — until we find out that's what our children are,"
— Lois Wyse, author of Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother
"From death to dlets,from sex to solitude, Letty Cottin Pogrebin examines the complexities of life after fifty, offering us not cheerleader platitudes but a hard-won vision of hope and vitality and delight." — Judith Viorst, author of Forever Fifty
"Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a sanity-saving friend who shares our personal and cultural crazlness about aging and helps transform it into realistic daily pleasure. Getting Over Getting Oider Is an... Tovább

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Praise for
GETTING OVER GEHING OLDER
"With this book, Letty Pogrebin becomes your new best — and smartest — friençi, taking you through all of this aging stuff with common sense, candor, and warmth."
— Bett/ Rollin, author of Last Wish
"Letty Cottin Pogrebin has looked at aging from the outside (through other writers) and the Inside (her own life experiences) and crafted a guide for all of us who think we're thirtysomething — until we find out that's what our children are,"
— Lois Wyse, author of Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother
"From death to dlets,from sex to solitude, Letty Cottin Pogrebin examines the complexities of life after fifty, offering us not cheerleader platitudes but a hard-won vision of hope and vitality and delight." — Judith Viorst, author of Forever Fifty
"Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a sanity-saving friend who shares our personal and cultural crazlness about aging and helps transform it into realistic daily pleasure. Getting Over Getting Oider Is an Intimate, informative gift to readers of all ages who want to look mortallt/ In the eye, live fully in the present, and discover that those two things go hand in hand." — Gloria Steinem, author of Moving Beyond Words
"In her stunning new book about midlife. Getting Over Getting O/der, Letty Cottin Pogrebin has managed to face what few writers on this subject have dared to: the confrontation with mortality that comes at this age. 1 was moved by this beautiful book," — Erica Jong, author of Fear of Fifty
"An honest book about age denial and angst,wlth some.W<^|iderful,surprising new thinking about those real fears." — Bett/ Friedan,autb^ 6^The Fountain-of Age
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"Bravo! Finally a book about aging that tells the truth'. There'^no politically correct rhetoric here, no denial of pain watching our own déclin^; no exhortations to embrace what we hate, Letty shows us how we can fight back, appreciate the present, and build a future that's more than getting old. This Is a beautiful book — courageous, heartwarming,funny,sad, and, most of all, wise,"
— Lillian B. Rubin, Ph.D.,author of The Transcendent Child
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n this insightful and wonderfuily personal book, a bestselling author and interna-tionaliy recognized political activist writes with unflinching honesty and uncommon humor about the feelings that accompany the universal experience of growing older,
Never before have the angst, body blues, mortality tremors, and time obsessions of midlife been described in such fresh and revealing detail. And never before have the midlife myths, realities, and opportunities been examined with so much narrative vigor and pure common sense.
As 77 million baby boomers begin turning fifty, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a respected social critic and award-winning writer, tells the truth about that uncharted period when time speeds up and the body slows down — when you are no longer young but far from old, and you refuse to believe that you are over the hill. Pogrebln's journey out of her forties and into her fifties becomes a user-friendly map of this challenging terrain as she demystifies the fears most people can't face and celebrates the possibilities most people can't see.
Every woman who is facing fiffy or has already moved past it will be grateful for
this warm, witty expioration of the indignities and epiphanies of midlife, large and small. Suddenly waking up in the middle of the night, for instance, with a non-negotiable need to go to the bathroom. Immediately. Having to let the waistband out on every skirt you own. Discovering one day that you con no longer read the phone book. Finally figuring out what you want to be when you grow up, Realizing that not everyone you love will be here forever and neither will you. Cherishing the present as never before.
In turn funny and profound, self-mocking and deeply moving. Getting Over Getting Older is the book women everywhere have been waiting for. This is the real story told from the inside out — the story ail those other books missed — an intimate companion for any reader who hopes to get through these crazy years with grace, guts, and good humor,
"Women of all ages will want to read Letty Cottin Pogrebin's marvelous journey through the thickets of age — with new courage toward new power." — Blanche Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt
Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a founding editor of Ms. magazine and the author of seven previous books, including Deborah, Golda, and Me; Among Friends; Family Politics; and Growing Up Free. She lives In New York Cit/.
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