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The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life /
When she started working with the aged more than 40 years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began packing away the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she became older herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Aging, I Wrote; 1. Who Is That Old Woman?; 2. What She Thinks About Some Times, 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.