# How Did I Get to Be Forty: And Other Atrocities - Hardcover

by **Judith Viorst** (Author)

**And so you've reached that time in life when you're starting to "pick investments over adventure, / And clean over scenic, and comfortable over intense"; when, even though in your heart of hearts you're much younger, the rest of you is (_how did it happen?_) forty.**

Judith Viorst, the wise and witty lady of _It's Hard to Be Hip Over 30 and Other Tragedies of Married Life,_ is here to guide you through these forty-ish years with poems that reflect the highs, the lows, and the everything-in-betweens of midlife. Viorst playfully considers the prospects of sagging kneecaps, awkward college reunions, and fantasies of love in the afternoon; being baffled by one's Buddhist bisexual vegetarian Maoist offspring; cholesterol counts, adult-education courses and other atrocities of midlife--which somehow aren't as painful when you can laugh at them.

Filled with warmth, humor, and insight, _How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities_ is Judith Viorst at her best.

**Number of Pages:** 64

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 7.8 x 6.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** April 02, 2019

## Details

- **Price:** 20.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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