Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection - Hardcover

Rosenblatt, Roger

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9780151006595: Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151006598 ISBN 13: 9780151006595
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

Synopsis

The prize-winning essayist and Time columnist serves up a humorous survival guide that explores the mysteries of aging for twenty-first century Americans. 35,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Roger Rosenblatt has won two George Polk Awards, a Peabody, an Emmy, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. Editor-at-large of Time, Inc., he is Long Island University's first University Professor of Writing. Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, have three children, and live in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island.

Reviews

A multiple-award-winning essayist/ journalist who is currently editor-at-large at Time, Rosenblatt offers sage bits of advice in this nice, neat package. Our favorite: Whatever you think matters, doesn't.
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It doesn't matter

Whatever you think matters-doesn't. Follow this rule, and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late, or early; if you are having a bad hair day, or a no hair day; if your boss looks at you cockeyed, or if you are cockeyed; if you don't get that promotion, or if you do. It doesn't matter.

Nobody is thinking about you Yes, I know, you are certain that your friends are becoming your enemies; that your grocer, garbageman, clergyman, sister-in-law, and your dog are all of the opinion that you have put on weight. You are also sure that everyone spends two-thirds of every day commenting on your moral disintegration, denigrating your work, plotting your murder. I promise you: Nobody is thinking about you. They are thinking about themselves-just like you.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0151006598
ISBN 13 
9780151006595
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
160
Rating
  • 3.69 out of 5 stars
    872 ratings by Goodreads

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