What's Worth Knowing

Name: What's Worth Knowing
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ISBN: 9781585423729

ISBN-10: 1585423726

ISBN-13: 9781585423729

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Wendy Lustbader

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Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. "The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was really Lila Lane, who eloped to Tijuana with her sweetheart at age sixteen, and who at age seventy-five bemoaned the fact that she could no longer wear high heels. Lustbader gathered these stories and more into What's Worth Knowing, a compilation of unforgettable first-person testimonials on…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/19/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


On Living Well


On People


On Time


On Spirituality


On Marriage


On Being Blue


On Work


On Illness and Frailty


On Good Conduct


On Regret


On Later Life