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By Ann Burack-Weiss

When she got to work with the elderly greater than 40 years in the past, Ann Burack-Weiss all started packing away the information and talents she proposal might support whilst she turned older herself. It was once now not till she hit her mid-seventies that she learned she had packed shoes to climb Mount Everest, now not looking forward to the crevices and chasms that represent the rocky terrain of previous age. the pro literature provided little support, so she grew to become to the late-life writing of liked girls authors who had bravely climbed the mountain and despatched again information from the summit. Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Marguerite Duras, M. F. okay. Fisher, Doris Lessing, Mary Oliver, Adrienne wealthy, could Sarton, and Florida Scott-Maxwell have been one of the publications she became to for idea. within the Lioness in iciness, Burack-Weiss blends an research of key writings from those and different famed ladies authors together with her personal knowledge to create one crucial significant other for older girls and those that take care of them. She fearlessly examines concerns equivalent to residing with loss, discovering convenience and pleasure in unforeseen areas, and dealing with incapacity and demise. This e-book is stuffed with strong passages from girls who grew to become their stories of getting older into paintings, and Burack-Weiss ties their phrases to her personal struggles and epiphanies, framing their collective observations with key insights from social paintings practice.

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