The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life by Ann Burack-Weiss

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The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life by Ann Burack-WeissISBN: 9780231151856 Colombia University Press, April 2017 208 pages, Paperback When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The

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