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In Our Prime: The Invention Of Middle Age (2012)

by Patricia Cohen(Favorite Author)

3.11 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1416572899 (ISBN13: 9781416572893)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Scribner

review 1: I have to agree with other reviewers who found nothing new in this book. It does a good job of documenting how advertisers create anxieties to get middle aged people to buy products but this is not exactly news. Much of the first part which purports to give a historical overview of the concept of middle age draws too heavily on prescriptive magazine articles and the pronouncements of a few overrated psychiatrists and sociologists. Neither of these give us any true idea of how most people thought about their middle years.
review 2: i'm marking this read but don't think i'll actually make it all the way through. Maybe i'm just too stuck in my storytelling preferences. While i found the premise very interesting (being a middle ager myself), I found the book dry,... more the message overwhelmed by the cited references. There's nothing in the book that makes me want to finish it, which really disappoints me. I'm not sure if i'm disappointed in the work or in myself. less

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