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Book Title: ON Turning Sixty-Five : Notes from the Field
Item Length: 9in.
Item Height: 0.8in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: John Jerome
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Gerontology, Personal Growth / General, Life Stages / Later Years, Personal Memoirs
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages