It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty: And Other Tragedies of

It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty: And Other Tragedies of Married Life (Judith Viorst's Decades)

Bringing together some of the best of Judith Viorstâ€™s witty and perceptive poetryâ€”and featuirng the illustrations from the original edition by John Alcornâ€”Viorst explores the all-too-true ironies and absurdities of being a woman in the modern world.

Whether sheâ€™s finding herself or finding a sitter, contemplating her sex life as she rubs hormone night cream on her face, or wrestling with the contradiction of falling in love with a man her parents would actually approve of, Viorst transforms the familiar events of daily life into poems that make you laugh with recognition.

Here is the young single girl leaving her parentsâ€™ home for life in the big city (â€œNo I do not believe in free love/And yes I will be home for Sunday dinnersâ€). Here is the aspiring bohemian with an expensive liberal arts education, getting coffee and taking dictation, â€œHoping that someday someone will be impressed/With all I know.â€ Here is that married woman, coping with motherhood (â€œThe tricycles are cluttering my foyer/The Pop Tart crumbs are sprinkled on my soulâ€) and fantasy affairs (â€œI could imagine cryptic conversations, clandestine martinis...and me explaining that long kisses clog my sinusesâ€) and all-too-real family reunions (â€œFour aunts in pain taking pills/One cousin in analysis taking notesâ€). And here she is at mid-life, wondering whether a woman who used to wear a â€œBan the Bombâ€ button can find happiness being a person with a set of fondue forks, a fish poacher, and a wok.

Every step of the way, Itâ€™s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life demonstrates once and for all that no one understands American women coming of age like Judith Viorst.

*Itâ€™s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life is a reissue of the previous collection originally titled When Did I Stop Being Twenty and Other Injustices.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781982122522
ReleaseDate 2019-04-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781982122522

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781982122522
ReleaseDate	2019-04-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781982122522

It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty: And Other Tragedies of Married Life (Judith Viorst's Decades)