Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

by Nicole Hollander

One of America's funniest women asks, "If sixty is the new fifty, when do I get to be thirty again?" Nicole Hollander grew up in the nineteen-fifties, when women of a certain age put on weight, got a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767926536
• ISBN13: 9780767926539
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Hooray for Hollander

Like they say, old age is not for sissies. But it doesn't have to be concentrated on how trying it is deal with. Hollander covers all the awful stuff with lots of wit and sass. Read the mopey books about body and mind deterioration if you must, but read this, too, for some perspective and a good laugh. Then go out and get a new pair of rhinestone frames for your bifocals.

Rats!

I hate it when someone takes all the good lines. (I have this feeling every other week.) But Nicole Hollander's book, "Tales of Graceful Aging," takes the cake. She has covered it all, from hair to hearing to hot flashes. (Remember them?). She has done the impossible. She's found humor in aging. (Even saying the word hurts.) If her cartoons are pithy and concise, the book is, well, nothing short of hilarious. It's a great, right-on read. It resonates. It sings. It's the real deal.

A Wise, Hilarious book

Nicole Hollander has been a national treasure for years; this may be her best, most important book. As usual, it's very, very funny, full of the kind of mad social commentary that's kept the Sylvia strips cumpulsory reading for so many years. But in this book, she gets closer to the bone, discussing the possibility of a full, rich, life after (fill in your number here.) A must-read for boomers who like to laugh!

I laughed so hard I hooted!

This book gave me the best laugh I've had in ages. And such a beautiful cover! Ok! It helps to start with a fairly jaded opinion of this culture's obsession with eternal youthfulness and be prepared to find your aging baby boomer self somewhat ridiculous (how did we get here?) For all the multitudes of us who did not have kids this book is particularly poignant and celebrates the joys and travails of friendship. The humor with which the author treats the chaos and incongruity of getting old, the not being that well prepared or graceful, leads to a certain kind of 'graceful' that laughs in the face of it all.

I'm a guy, and I LOVED it!

Nicole Hollander's comic strip "Sylvia" is a classic. This book takes a humorous look at how those of us of a "certain age" are dealing with the passage of time. 60 is the new 40, right? Hollander writes lots of vignettes and commiserates with her girlfriends about all those things that we feel as the world just keeps getting younger around us. There are some serious flashes of Erma Bombeck here. Don't call'em hot flashes. They are WAY cool.