University of Arizona Press
The Oldest We've Ever Been: Seven True Stories of Midlife Transitions
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- Maud Lavin
- University of Arizona Press
- Paperback
- 9780816526161
- 9.02 X 6.03 X 0.59 inches
- 0.68 pounds
- Family & Relationships > Life Stages - Later Years
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In this engaging collection, editor Maud Lavin has enlisted seven talented writers to share their stories of midlife transitions, reflecting the unpredictable challenges and unexpected graces that characterize this multilayered stage of life. The writers--Kim Larsen, Calvin Forbes, Ellen McMahon, Allan deSouza, Peggy Shinner, William Davies King, and Maud Lavin together with Locke Bowman--offer a wide range of stories and experiences that are both universal and deeply personal in their details.
From tales of divorce and dating through the lens of an eccentric collecting habit to the challenges of dealing with a close friend's grave illness, these memorable essays evoke a complex, honest, and often surprising picture of what it means to be middle-aged. The authors aim to share stories appreciating midlife, not as the problem child of self-help books (those many manuals that claim to have the answer to menopausal mood swings or abdominal fat or bone thinning), but as a wealth of events and perceptions and feelings never experienced before. This richly layered montage offers readers a chance to reflect on the gifts of this age and, finally, to savor the idea of being the oldest we've ever been.
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