Frank Waters:"Uproariously funny and diabolically clever … just the same this is a disturbing book. It mirrors all of our uneasiness, our hidden fears, our desperate search for a way out of our tragic era. It is the fantasy of our common unconsciousness,  brought up into our consciousness in living, dreadfully alive, images."Hugh Nissenson:"A marvelous book: funny, mythic and illuminating. It flashes forth glimpses of the universe of the unconscious, with its universal ramifications, that we all share."

Seeing Things

Literature & Fiction

Painter, Charlotte

Genre Fiction

E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd

Gifts of Age/Book Cards/03848

Valois, Pamela

Chronicle Books LLC.

Writer Charlotte Painter and artist/photographer Pamela Valois have combined their impressive talents to present these intimate glimpses into the lives of thirty-two remarkable women, each of whom has discovered in maturity the opportunity of exploring new and exciting challenges. These are the Gifts of Age: the time, the freedom, and hopefully the wisdom to develop creative new images of oneself and one's place in the complexities of a long life. All of the women in this book are more than sixty-five years of age, and included are such well-known personalities as Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, Joan Baez Senior, and Louise M. Davies. No two have followed the same path, but each has been successful in achieving some new, frequently unanticipated distinction in her latter years. Gifts of Age is a fascinating insight into just how productive one's extended life can be, and inspiration for anyone who believes that the creative talent for living need not diminish with the passage of years.

Gifts of Age: 32 Remarkable Women

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Writer Charlotte Painter and artist/photographer Pamela Valois have combined their impressive talents to present these intimate glimpses into the lives of thirty-two remarkable women, each of whom has discovered in maturity the opportunity of exploring new and exciting challenges. These are the Gifts of Age: the time, the freedom, and hopefully the wisdom to develop creative new images of oneself and one's place in the complexities of a long life. All of the women in this book are more than sixty-five years of age, and included are such well-known personalities as Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, Joan Baez Senior, and Louise M. Davies. No two have followed the same path, but each has been successful in achieving some new, frequently unanticipated distinction in her latter years. Gifts of Age is a fascinating insight into just how productive one's extended life can be, and inspiration for anyone who believes that the creative talent for living need not diminish with the passage of years.

Gifts of Age: Portraits and Essays of 32 Remarkable Women

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Chronicle Books+

Painter and Valois have combined their impressive talents to present intimate glimpses into the lives of 36 remarkable women, each of whom has discovered in maturity the opportunity to explore new and exciting challenges. 36 photos.

Gifts of Age:Book of Days

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Garden Books

Activists, rock stars, and Hollywood celebrities have raised awareness of the plight of Tibet. In Conjuring Tibet, Charlotte Painter creates a compelling frame for the issues - China's desecration of Tibet's religion and culture, its wasting of Tibet's natural resources for industry and nuclear stockpiling. In this novel, an American woman travels with a young Tibetan lama to forbidden terrain, a remote monastery. Her notebook records stories of Tibetan persecutions, the agony and humor of her journey, as well as a parallel tale of magical lovers and friends who undertake the liberation of Tibet. Pulsing through this exotic journey is a celebration of the imagination to overcome human limitations and transcend boundaries, even geographic ones.

Conjuring Tibet

United States

Mercury House

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