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Roctogenarians [sound recording] : late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs / Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg.

Late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs (portion title)
Rocca, Mo, (author,, narrator.). Greenberg, Jonathan, (author.).

Summary:

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. 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 (Rita Moreno, the EGOT who's still got it). 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.)

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  • ISBN: 9781797175409
  • ISBN: 1797175408
  • Physical Description: 9 audio discs (11 hours, 30 minutes) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2024]

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Compact discs.
Subtitle from container.
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Read by Mo Rocca.

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Marion Library AUDIO CD 305 ROC (Text) 37810435606479 Adult Audiobook Nonfiction Available -
High Point Library CDB-9 305.26 Rocca (Text) 30519020311430 Adult Audiobook Nonfiction Available -
Leicester Library ROC CD 68949 (Text) 0020513750826 Adult Audiobook Available -
North Regional Library BOOK CD 305.26 R (Text) 31781067402451 Adult Audiobook Available -
South Buncombe/Skyland Library ROC CD 68950 (Text) 0020513750818 Adult Audiobook Available -
West Regional Library BOOK CD 305.26 R (Text) 31781067402469 Adult Audiobook Available -

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