Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations
Judith Viorst ; Illustrated by John Alcorn
- New York Simon & Schuster 1989
- 61 p.
Fifty : You say you want to know how old I am?- You say you want to know how the children are doing?- Wild thing- Exercising options- Postmortems- Confusion- To a middle-aged friend considering adultery with a younger man- Happiness- Still Fifty: By my age- Second Marriage- Breif encounter at the delicatessen- They're back- Christmas presents for fifty years and over- And now you want to know if there is anything good to say about getting older- Eight basic facts about memory- How can people want to bring children into this terrible world?- Forever Fifty : Before I go- You might as well laugh- Some advice from a mother to her married son- When asked to what they owe the success of their marriage, he and she completely agree that love is accommodation- Medical tests- More questions- A sexy old lady- The pleasures of an ordinary life
Amusing poems written about various aspects of being fifty years old