Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel: Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John Updike

Gullette, Margaret Morganroth

ISBN 10: 0520062825 / ISBN 13: 9780520062825

Published by University of California Press, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel: Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John Updike
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520062825
• ISBN 13: 9780520062825
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

"Discovering the midlife progress novel, Gullette finds in recent fiction a pervasive tension between decline and a new ideology of aging. Appropriately, she invites the reader to join the writers in their therapeutic discourse." --Rosemary Franklin, American Literature.
 
"[This] book certainly makes you think. What is it that can happen in middle age to make it, as it is for many people, the clearest and sweetest time of life?" --Frank Conroy, The New York Times

About the Author

           An internationally known pioneer in age studies and one of the most influential cultural critics on middle ageism and ageism, Margaret Morganroth Gullette is also the author of the prize-winning nonfiction books, Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America and Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife. Aged by Culture is taught in many courses, and quoted and discussed in age studies. 

             Her next book is called Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People. 

             Gullette is a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis.