{"product_id":"these-purple-years-paperback","title":"These Purple Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmelia Fielden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society, founded in the USA in 1997 as 'the place where there is fun over fifty'. This society takes for its motto, so to speak, a poem called 'Warning', by the UK poet Jenny Joseph (1932-). The first verse of 'Warning' begins thus: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I am an old woman I shall wear purple\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... And make up for the sobriety of my youth!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nice synchronicity between East and West, isn't it? Loving the colour purple, I quite often wear it, not just to Red Hat Society functions. I was born in 1941, and most of the tanka in this book have been written and published during my 'purple years'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46294667264197,"sku":"9781760415594","price":48.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/19jYJ9r3g99781760415594.webp?v=1780260871","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/these-purple-years-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}