Getting Over Getting Older: An Intimate Journey

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Book Overview

With a combination of insight and emotional honesty, the award-winning author and founder of Ms. magazine shatters the myths about everything from monogamy to menopause, and offers women of all ages a new perspective on their lives. Reprint.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425157938
• ISBN13: 9780425157930
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Getting Over Getting Older

I found this to be the best book of its type that I have read. It is upbeat, practical and written in a pleasant to read style. It is helpful without sugarcoating or depressing.

I laughed till I cried

This book was like talking with a close friend. I thank Letty for being honest, sensitive and very funny. If you are 50 it's a must read...I bought 6 copies to give to friends!

Funny, poignant, reassuring--all at the same time!

A must-read for those 49 1/2 and--sorry--older. My sister (55) recommended it to me (52) after I noticed that some men I had dated were starting to die in their 50's. I landed on Pogrebin's reassuring comment that death isn't a factor of aging but a factor of life with relief and recognition. She approaches the good, the bad, and the ugly (and what her grownup daughters label even as disgusting) with humor and the sense of sisterhood and community that are her hallmark.