Sturdy hardcover measuring 5.5” x 8.5”. Clean, crisp pages. Some rubbing and minimal shelf wear to crisp dust jacket. The author has written several books on women. When she was a young woman, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun made a solemn resolution not to live past seventy. Taking her own life then, she reasoned, would give closure to a life well lived. But on the advent of her 70th birthday she realized that the past ten years had been filled with unexpected pleasures. She writes with humor and honesty about the emotional and intellectual insights that brought her “to choose, each day for now, to live.”#autobiography#women#aging#hardcover#nonfiction (Shelf 1B)