The Lioness in Winter : : Writing an Old Woman's Life / / Ann Burack-Weiss.
When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Aging, I Wrote
- 1. WHO IS THAT OLD WOMAN?
- 2. WHAT SHE THINKS ABOUT SOMETIMES, SOME DAYS, ABOUT SOME THINGS
- 3. I HAD LOOKED AT MYSELF IN THE FULL-LENGTH MIRROR
- 4. HOW WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER
- 5. BUT WHO WERE THEY?
- 6. THERE IS A GRACE IN DEATH, THERE IS LIFE
- 7. MY MAP OF A PLACE
- 8. INTERESTED IN BIG THINGS AND HAPPY IN SMALL WAYS
- 9. JUST SHOW UP
- 10. FIERCE WITH REALITY
- CONCLUSION. Aging, I Write
- AFTERWORD. Bright as Stars in the Heaven of My Mind
- Annotated Readings
- References