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02874aam a2200421 i 4500 001 05BF9802D2B111ED872B743748ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230404012110 008 221004t20232023nyu 000 0aeng d 020 $a 0967554128 020 $a 9780967554129 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3570.H568 $b Z46 2023 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Thomas, Abigail, $e author. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000084845430. 245 10 $a Still life at eighty : $b the next interesting thing / $c Abigail Thomas. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Woodstock, NY : $b Golden Notebook Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 191 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for company--three dogs, vivid memories, bugs and birds and critters that she watches out her window. No one but this beloved, best-selling memoirist, could make so much over what might seem so little. Memories fall like confetti, as time contracts, shoots forward, dawdles, and there she is, back in her twenties in Washington Square Park, drinking, having sex with strangers, falling in and out of love, believing in a better world. Whole decades evaporate as she sits in her chair, and a spider takes up residence beside her, who will become her boon companion for the next week. Sometimes dread arrives, inhabits her body like a shadow and all she can do is write it away, pay attention to what catches her eye, sticks in her brain. Whatever keeps her in the moment. Pull up a chair, have a cup of tea and enter Abigail Thomas's funny, mesmerizing, generous world. 600 10 $a Thomas, Abigail $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000084845430. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Aging. 600 17 $a Thomas, Abigail. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00301989. 650 7 $a Aging. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00800293. 650 7 $a Authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821764. 650 7 $a Women authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177210. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 2 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230524010426.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230404020056.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=05BF9802D2B111ED872B743748ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search