Kiss Tomorrow Hello
Notes From the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty
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نقد و بررسی
December 19, 2005
Boomer women share their surprise at arriving in midlife and the lessons they've learned along the way. Most of the contributors to this volume, edited by award-winning authors Barnes (In the Wilderness
) and Davis (Winter Range
), are in their 40s; a handful—among them Annick Smith, Beverly Lowry and Mary Clearman Blew—have reached 60. The entries vary greatly in tone and literary skill, but there are several outstanding contributions. Diana Abu-Jaber explores with intelligence the moves she has made and the meaning of permanence and place. Julia Glass describes the physical and emotional toll cancer treatments have taken on her and her children. On a lighter note, Pam Houston details with considerable wit a period when she was consumed by an erotic attraction (never consummated) to a man other than her husband (devoted to raising organic cattle of a certain breed, he was known as "the Scottish Highland beefcake"). No doubt other boomer women will find much to identify with.
April 1, 2006
Reflecting on ordinary lives rich with the passion and drama of daily existence, the 25 talented women contributing to this satisfying volume, edited by Pulitzer Prize finalist Barnes ("In the Wilderness") and fiction writer Davis ("Season of the Snake"), expose their most personal dreams and fears in compelling and beautifully written essays. This is a diverse and satisfying mixture of midlife stories from urban, suburban, and rural writers who, through the more lucid self-awareness and self-acceptance that comes with growing older, have come to terms with considerable challenges, including poverty, illness, addiction, and sexual abuse. Diana Abu-Jaber, Mary Clearman Blew, Joyce Maynard, Lisa Norris, and the other authors reminisce about their childhoods, happy and otherwise, and consider love, desire, sex, careers, beauty, aging, and death. What unites these new essays is their vivid honesty, capturing universal truths and personal experiences in sparkling prose. Recommended for all public libraries." -Donna L. Davey, New York Univ. Lib."
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