"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
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Safe at Last in the Middle Years
The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel
- 186 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Safe at Last in the Middle Years
The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction “The Years Teach Much …”
- 1. Safe at Last
- 2. Healing Fictions
- 3. John Updike: Rabbit Angstrom Grows Up
- 4. Ugly Ducklings and Swans: Margaret Drabble’s Fable of Progress
- 5. Anne Tyler: The Tears (and Joys) Are in the Things
- 6. Saul Bellow: Inward and Upward, Past Distraction
- 7. In Defense of Midlife Progress Narratives
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page
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