Senior Moments
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
ISBN10: 1250141184
ISBN13: 9781250141187
Trade Paperback
208 Pages
$18.00
CA$25.00
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.
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Praise for Senior Moments
“Mr. Spiegelman adopts the discursive, finely crafted voice of a literature professor, revealing a penchant for aphorism and allusion.”—Wall Street Journal
“He's an agreeable, wise and witty companion—edifying, fun and fearless as he proffers lessons in happiness and aging learned during his long, distinguished career.”—The Dallas Morning News