What's in an Age?: Who Did What When, from Age 1 to 100
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Book Overview
Counting up year by year, from 1 to 104, this fascinating collection of human feats and follies is for all who suspect that their lives have yet to start or have passed them by. Feel too young to be the older woman? Chill. Anne Bancroft was a wee 37 when she played the most experienced of seductresses, Mrs. Robinson, in The Graduate. Amazed that even after decades as an adult, you still don't know yourself? Relax: Freud was 41 before he put himself on the couch.
Illustrated with droll, original drawings, What's in an Age will awe, encourage, calm, and prove that people do amazing and unexpected things at every age. From the invigorating (at 78, Grandma Moses takes up painting) to the just plain baffling (97-year-old Simon Stern, of Wisconsin, divorces his 91-year-old bride, Ida), What's in an Age is a handbook for overcoming any age complex.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0688169112
ISBN13:9780688169114
Release Date:June 1999
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.33 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
great party conversation material
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Finally! Want to have something off-beat and smart (and maybe funny, too) to say at a party, or tell your uncle who's always ragging you about what you have yet to do with your life (like he's Mr. Accomplishment?)? This book has it all - composers, scientists, athletes, writers, presidents, bad men, prodigies, people who took their sweet time to make their mark on the world. And stuff like how old the guy was who invented the donut, the Slinky, Silly Putty (no, it wasn't all the same person), and more. This really is one of those books that you can't put down. And the pictures are hilariously brilliant.
Fascinating entries and v. funny illos-ideal birthday gift!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
If you're looking for motivation to finally write that screenplay/start that new career/invent a gizmo that will make you rich, you'll find it here. Andrew Postman clearly did his homework. Who would've thought that at age 9 Genghis Khan became chief of his mongol tribe? That at age 42 Sigmund Freud stopped having sex? Or that at 87 Mary Baker Eddy founded the Christian Science Monitor? Nick Galifianakis's illustrations are so wickedly funny you want to tear them out and stick them on your refrigerator. A perfect birthday gift for the person who has it all--including a sense of humor.
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