Still Life at Eighty : : the Next Interesting Thing
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In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for company--three dogs, vivid memories, bugs and birds and critters that she watches out her window. No one but this beloved, best-selling memoirist, could make so much over what might seem so little. Memories fall like confetti, as time contracts, shoots forward, dawdles, and there she is, back in her twenties in Washington Square Park, drinking, having sex with strangers, falling in and out of love, believing in a better world. Whole decades evaporate as she sits in her chair, and a spider takes up residence beside her, who will become her boon companion for the next week. Sometimes dread arrives, inhabits her body like a shadow and all she can do is write it away, pay attention to what catches her eye, sticks in her brain. Whatever keeps her in the moment. Pull up a chair, have a cup of tea and enter Abigail Thomas's funny, mesmerizing, generous world.
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PUBLISHED
Woodstock, NY : Golden Notebook Press, 2023.
Year Published: 2023
Description: 191 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780967554129
0967554128
SUBJECTS
Thomas, Abigail.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Aging.
Autobiographies.