AGING. AN APPRENTICESHIP - Tecno-Libro

Nan Narboe's 56 thoughtfully selected essays offer an intimate and lyrical account of aging through the decades. . Authors .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. . in 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. . Drawing 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 olde