{"product_id":"its-hard-to-be-hip-over-thirty","title":"It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/1960-family.jpg?v=1593032587\u0026amp;width=700\" width=\"480x480\" height=\"480x480\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePREFACE BY THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e128pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe honeymoon is over\u003cbr\u003eAnd he has left for work\u003cbr\u003eWhistling something obvious from La Bohème\u003cbr\u003eAnd carrying a brown calfskin attaché case\u003cbr\u003eI never dreamed he was capable of owning,\u003cbr\u003eHaving started the day\u003cbr\u003eWith ten pushups and a cold shower\u003cbr\u003eFollowed by a hearty breakfast.\u003cbr\u003e(What do we actually have in common?)\u003cbr\u003eThe honeymoon is over\u003cbr\u003eAnd I am dry-mopping the floor\u003cbr\u003eIn a green Dacron dry-mopping outfit from Saks,\u003cbr\u003eWondering why I'm not dancing in the dark,\u003cbr\u003eOr rejecting princes,\u003cbr\u003eOr hearing people gasp at my one-man show,\u003cbr\u003eMy god, so beautiful and so gifted!\u003cbr\u003e(The trouble is I never knew a prince.)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJudith Viorst is an American poet, novelist and psychoanalyst. As well as \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(1968), and its companion in our volume, \u003cem\u003ePeople \u0026amp; Other Aggravations\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), she has written other poetry collections, including \u003cem\u003eSuddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life.\u003c\/em\u003e Her inspiration is marriage and motherhood and the conflicts they cause: romance versus reality, love for a child versus passionate longing for sleep, love for a husband versus – it is the 'versus' that Judith Viorst writes about: with tenderness, realism, insight and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe endpaper is a 1968 Liberty's fabric called 'Bangles'. The three-dimensional kinetic pattern is characteristic of the period, the pinks and purples reflecting the influence of pop art and psychedelic design; it might have hung in the Viorst family apartment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Judith Viorst","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098761318707,"sku":"xbo1789694449298","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098761351475,"sku":"hlj1789694449299","price":38.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098761384243,"sku":"ohu1789694449300","price":31.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098761417011,"sku":"gvm1789694449301","price":44.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/its-hard-to-be-hip-over-thirty_1.jpg?v=1789694457","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/its-hard-to-be-hip-over-thirty","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}