Between a Rock and a Hot Place
Why Fifty Is Not the New Thirty
Written by: Tracey Jackson
Category: Non Fiction
Genre: Health & Lifestyle, Womens health
Book Details:
ISBN 10: 006166927X
ISBN 13: 9780061669279
Format: Hardback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Date Published: United States, June 24th, 2015
Language: English
Condition: Very Good
Appearance: Usual library stamps and stickers. Cover is laminated. Minor foxing on external pages. Very Good condition.
Synopsis:
A funny, fearless, no-holds-barred look at aging--hormone replacement therapy, online dating, eye lifts, and allAs she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded--at the gym, at parties, in conversations with friends--by a catchphrase on everyone's lips. "Fifty is the new thirty" and the endless magazine articles, photos, and T-shirts proclaiming the new aphorism had apparently bloomed out of a collective sense of denial, masking the true fears of a generation unwilling to relinquish their youth.With a comedy writer's training and a screenwriter's eye for detail, Jackson skewers the myth in Between a Rock and a Hot Place, a hilarious, bare-knuckled, and ultimately practical appraisal of what middle age really means today. Willing not only to face the elephant in the room, but to put him under a (large) microscope, Jackson confronts the truth about death, work, and sex in what the French call the "third age," using poignant, laugh-out-loud stories from her life. Jackson examines the changing roles of motherhood and wifehood; the necessity of planning a "career after your career"; the unvarnished reality of our aging bodies; and the generational shift in our perception of age ("Tight abs was not a phrase my grandmother had ever heard. And even if she had, her response would likely have been, Who needs that when you have a girdle?").Turning fifty is a wake-up call--but one that can be greeted with a plan. Recounting the changes she went through, the things she learned (and things she didn't) en route to fifty, Between a Rock and a Hot Place navigates, with unsparing honesty and unerring wit, the confusion and uncertainty of the most significant uncharted transition in our lives.
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