Roctogenarians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roctogenarians write by Mo Rocca. This book was released on 2024-06-11. Roctogenarians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life. Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering—breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records—and in the case of one ninety-year tortoise, becoming a first-time father. (Take that, Al Pacino!) In the vein of Mobituaries, Roctogenarians is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans—some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some very much still living (Mel Brooks, yukking it up at close to one hundred). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and Carol Channing, who married the love of her life at eighty-two. Then there’s Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties and completed it at seventy-three (because sometimes finding the right word takes time.) With passion and wonder Rocca and Greenberg recount the stories of yesterday’s and today’s strongest finishers. Because with all due respect to the Golden Girls, some people will never be content sitting out on the lanai. (PS Actress Estelle Getty was sixty-two when she got her big break. And yes, she’s in the book.)
Mobituaries
Mobituaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mobituaries write by Mo Rocca. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Mobituaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From popular TV correspondent and writer Rocca comes a charmingly irreverent and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who made life worth living.
A Fine Romance
A Fine Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Fine Romance write by Candice Bergen. This book was released on 2016-04-05. A Fine Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a follow-up to Knock Wood, the Emmy Award-winning actress traces the milestone events of her life, including her first marriage, the birth of her daughter, her work on Murphy Brown and her struggles with widowhood.
Why Did I Ever
Why Did I Ever - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Did I Ever write by Mary Robison. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Why Did I Ever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel.” —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her secluded Southern town, and L.A., where she has a weakening grasp on her job as a script doctor. Having been sacked by most of the studios and convinced that her dealings with Hollywood have fractured her personality, Money Breton talks to herself nonstop. She glues and hammers and paints every item in her place. She forges loving inscriptions in all her books. Through it all, there is her darling puzzling daughter who lives close by but seems ever beyond reach, and her son, the damaged victim of a violent crime under police protection in New York. While both her children seem to be losing all their battles, Money tries for ways and reasons to keep battling. Why Did I Ever is a book of piercing intellect and belligerent humor. Since its first publication in 2002 it has had a profound impact, not only on Robison’s devoted following, but on the shape of the contemporary novel itself.
All the Presidents' Pets
All the Presidents' Pets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All the Presidents' Pets write by Mo Rocca. This book was released on 2004. All the Presidents' Pets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A political humorist investigates the important influence of presidential pets on Washington's domestic policy-making and international diplomacy, drawing on never-before-seen pet diaries to reveal what goes on behind closed doors in the White House. 35,000 first printing.
