"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
- ISBN10 1504029615
- ISBN13 9781504029612
- Publish Date 29 March 2016 (first published 1 November 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Open Road Media
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 220
- Language English