Three Legs in the Evening

by Bette Ann Moskowitz and Bette Ann Moskowitz author of Do I Know You? A Family's Journey Through Aging and Alzheimer's

Three Legs in the Evening comes from the Sphinx's riddle in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in which Oedipus is asked what creature walks on all fours in the morning, on two legs in the afternoon, and three in the evening. The answer, which Oedipus gets right, is Man, who crawls as a baby, walks upright as a man, and leans on a cane in his old age. Received wisdom, in other words, can be unreliable. Enter the story of Sally B, an over-sixty widow about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803412062
• ISBN13: 9781803412061
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Roundfire Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"