{"product_id":"9780374712990","title":"Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving collection of essays on aging and happiness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003eSpiegelman's expertly crafted book considers, with wisdom and elegance, how to be alert to the joys that brim from unexpected places even as death draws near.\u003ci\u003e Senior Moments\u003c\/i\u003e 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. A clear-eyed book of memories, written in eight searching and courageously honest essays, \u003ci\u003eSenior Moments\u003c\/i\u003e is guaranteed to stimulate, stir, and restore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104123961584,"sku":"9780374712990","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374712990_p0.jpg?v=1769916078","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374712990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}