Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

By Willard Spiegelman

Book Overview

Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead. Senior Moments is a foray into the felicity and follies that age brings; a consideration of how and what one reads or rereads in late adulthood; the eagerness for, and disappointment in, long-awaited reunions, at which the past comes alive in the present. It is guaranteed to stimulate, stir, and restore.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250141184
• ISBN13: 9781250141187
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"