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Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood - Hardcover

Levine, Suzanne Braun

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9780670020683: Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
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ISBN 10: 0670020680 ISBN 13: 9780670020683
Publisher: Viking Adult, 2009

Synopsis

A follow-up to Inventing the Rest of Our Lives outlines ten lessons for maximizing creativity and personal satisfaction after the age of fifty, in an anecdotal guide that shares counsel on such topics as confronting change, renegotiating one's relationships, and setting boundaries.

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About the Author

Suzanne Braun Levine is the author of three previous books. She was the first editor of Ms. magazine, where she worked for seventeen years. She was also the editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. A nationally recognized authority on women, media, and family issues, she lectures widely and has appeared on major television talk shows, including Oprah, Charlie Rose, and Today.

Reviews

In a time when How Not to Look Old is a bestseller, and the women who came of age during the 1960s are now in their 60s, outspoken women's movement veteran Levine (Inventing the Rest of Our Lives) advises women 50-plus to reject the desire to recapture youth and acknowledge their great good fortune in arriving at a point where they can creatively enhance the rest of their lives. Citing Madeleine L'Engle's observation, the great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been, Levine uses this book to air and explore her own feelings, and those of other women, about moving from the Fuck-You Fifties to a pleasanter, stress-defusing outlook characterized by a growing ability to not take lesser things too seriously. She offers a 10-step strategy for avoiding a descent into The Fertile Void, where late-midlife women find themselves in a state of confusion and lost self-confidence. The self-help lessons are nothing new: be your age, not your stage; take responsibility for your physical and emotional life; accept that you are not who you were, only older; use what you already know. Advertising-style jargon and nonsensical slogans get in the way of an otherwise promising positive message. (Apr.)
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Publisher
Viking Adult
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0670020680
ISBN 13 
9780670020683
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224
Rating
  • 3.54 out of 5 stars
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