[close] This is a wonderfully warm celebration of age and of life -- the joys and disappointments, the solitary satisfactions, the times of change and beginning again. Margot Benary-Isbert's views on life are not recently arrived at in the realization that the years have slipped by, but are the mature reflections of a complete person.

To share her perceptive thoughts on family, friends, travel, education, and writing, as well as the realities of loneliness and loss, is to know one who looks upon age as an adventure and an invitation.

"These Vintage Years" is a uniquely personal book which challenges you and old alike, not to endure, but to experience, to risk . . . to live.

Translated from German by the author. [close]