The Resource Old age : a beginner's guide, Michael Kinsley
Old age : a beginner's guide, Michael Kinsley
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The item Old age : a beginner's guide, Michael Kinsley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nevins Memorial Library (Methuen).
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- Summary
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- "Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you've gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson's disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. "Sometimes, " he writes, "I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties." This deeply affectionate book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man's journey toward the finish line. "The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting, " he writes. "Parkinson's disease has fulfilled that obligation.""--
- "A collection of essays on aging, Parkinson's disease, fame, and the legacy of the Baby Boomer generation"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 160 pages
- Contents
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- An encounter in the pool
- In defense of denial
- It's not rocket science--but it is brain surgery
- An encounter in the sky
- Have you lost your mind?
- The vanity of human hopes (reputation)
- The least we can do
- An encounter in the stockroom
- Isbn
- 9781101903780
- Link
- 9781101903766.jpg
- Label
- Old age : a beginner's guide
- Title
- Old age
- Title remainder
- a beginner's guide
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Kinsley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you've gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson's disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. "Sometimes, " he writes, "I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties." This deeply affectionate book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man's journey toward the finish line. "The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting, " he writes. "Parkinson's disease has fulfilled that obligation.""--
- "A collection of essays on aging, Parkinson's disease, fame, and the legacy of the Baby Boomer generation"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kinsley, Michael E
- Dewey number
- 814/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3611.I655 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Aging
- Life change events
- Baby boom generation
- Life
- Values
- Meaning (Psychology)
- Kinsley, Michael E
- Authors, American
- Parkinson's disease
- Label
- Old age : a beginner's guide, Michael Kinsley
- Link
- 9781101903766.jpg
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- An encounter in the pool -- In defense of denial -- It's not rocket science--but it is brain surgery -- An encounter in the sky -- Have you lost your mind? -- The vanity of human hopes (reputation) -- The least we can do -- An encounter in the stockroom
- Control code
- 1649948
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 160 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101903780
- Lccn
- 2015038958
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1649948
- (OCoLC)930508644
- Label
- Old age : a beginner's guide, Michael Kinsley
- Link
- 9781101903766.jpg
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- An encounter in the pool -- In defense of denial -- It's not rocket science--but it is brain surgery -- An encounter in the sky -- Have you lost your mind? -- The vanity of human hopes (reputation) -- The least we can do -- An encounter in the stockroom
- Control code
- 1649948
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 160 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101903780
- Lccn
- 2015038958
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1649948
- (OCoLC)930508644
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