Threshold: The first days of retirement : recording some of the disappointments, pleasures, and reflections of a new traveler into that state of joblessness sometimes known as the Golden Age - Softcover
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Alan Olmstead had been the editor of the Manchester Evening Herald since 1941. He also in 1941 began to write a tri-weekly column for other Connecticut papers. The Connecticut Yankee - he still wrote this at the time this book was printed. He also wrote some pieces for the The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town." But just as he approached his sixty-fifth birthday a change of ownership at the paper made him decide he didn't want to continue working there. He didn't feel he wanted to look for full-time work again at sixty-five - and he decided to face retirement. As he faced it he began to write Threshold, which invites readers, in the most delightful and reassuring manner, to share his thoughts and feelings as he explores a new way of life.
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Threshold: The First Days of Retirement
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Harper & Row,1975. Second printing. Hard Cover. Dust jacket has very slight shelfwear, lightly worn corners. Cover has very slight shelfwear. Lightly foxed on fore edge and top edge of papers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Beautiful condition. This books is a quiet, introspective meditation on one of life's transitions: the shift from working identity to post-career existence. Eschewing drama in favor of reflection, Olmstead takes readers into the tender and often uncertain moments that follow retirement, where questions of purpose, self-worth, and routine begin to emerge. Seller Inventory # 23674