| Judith Viorst has a funny way with reality...which may be one of the rea- sons why her previous books It s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and llow Did 1 Get to Be Forty...and Other Atrocities. are such beloved best sellers. She sim- ply won t let u s forget the things we want to. Indeed. she makes us look at life and smile, laugh be glad and some- times even believe that we are coping. Here Judith Viorst applies her unique wit to the subjects of love and guilt and the meaning of life in a collection of concise and charming commen- taries that illuminate our common hu- man experience. She touches upon the many faces of love-- falling in love and the end of love, husbandly love andwifely love. neurotic love and star-crossed love, and the special relation-ship between love and shrimp. Sheexplores the secret sources of ourguilt spiritual guilt and exercise guilt,intellectual guilt and no-fault guilt, andthe guilt so often inspired by visitingmothers. And, finally, she searches forthe meaning of it all of Truth Happi-ness, Sex Death, Courage, Compassionand, of course, Complaining. Funny and insightful, wise and hope-tul, Love and Guilt and the Meaning ofLife, Etc. is vintage Viorst. |
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