{"product_id":"aging-an-apprenticeship-9780692753996","title":"Aging: An Apprenticeship","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nan Narboe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Red Notebook Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Red Notebook Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Life Stages - Later Years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNan Narboe's 56 thoughtfully selected essays offer an intimate and lyrical account of aging through the decades.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthors Judy Blume, Andrew McCarthy, Gloria Steinem, Donald Hall, David Shields, Ursula K. Le Guin and others draw from their own experiences, describing a specific decade's losses and gains to form a complex and unflinching portrait of the years from nearing fifty to ninety and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn six sections, these detail-rich essays paint an accessible picture of nearing 50, the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, the 90s and beyond with equal parts humor and insight. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on seven decades worth of experiences, the selected essays offer a clear-eyed composition of narratives, each narrative as important as the one before it. In Paul Casey's \"Katie Couric Is No Friend of Mine,\" a colonoscopy, not a red convertible, marks his initiation into mid-life. Germaine Koh, in \"Thoughts on Aging,\" is the oldest player in her roller derby league, confounded by her changing body. Ursula K. Le Guin's \"Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts about Beauty\" meditates on human self-consciousness--it is aging humans who find their bodies surprising. And in \"Death,\" Donald Hall rejects euphemisms: he's not going to \"pass away;\" he's going to die.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Notebook Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45113023725719,"sku":"9780692753996","price":1348.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780692753996.webp?v=1767099193","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/aging-an-apprenticeship-9780692753996","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}