{"product_id":"senior-moments-looking-back-looking-ahead-9781250141187","title":"Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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. \u003ci\u003eSenior Moments\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSenior Moments \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Willard Spiegelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250141187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWillard Spiegelman\u003c\/b\u003e is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. From 1984 until 2016, he was also the editor in chief of\u003ci\u003e Southwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written many books and essays about English and American poetry. For more than a quarter century he has been a regular contributor to the Leisure \u0026amp; Arts pages of \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44117072707699,"sku":"9.78125E+12","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_3ba46843-eb0f-456d-9591-e54bf150fc44.jpg?v=1764336062","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/senior-moments-looking-back-looking-ahead-9781250141187","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}