The Midlife Mind
Literature and the Art of Aging
Distributed for Reaktion Books
328 pages
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20 halftones
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6 1/4 x 9 1/4
Review Quotes
Andrew Motion, Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, author of “Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets”
“In this elegantly essayistic book, Hutchinson contemplates the central stretch of our human existence. Personal as well as learned, conversational but braced, it ranges widely through European cultures (Dante to Beckett, Montaigne to Beauvoir) and reminds us that being caught in the middle, with or without a crisis, can produce opportunities as well as restriction. Its great distinction is to respond to both with wise and warmhearted understanding.”
Josh Cohen, professor of modern literary theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, psychoanalyst, author of "Not Working: Why We Have to Stop"
"Weaving granular readings of major literary renderings of midlife with reflections on his own, Hutchinson’s The Midlife Mind is more than another book ‘about’ middle age. Mobilizing the qualities of irony and self-awareness for which it advocates, it is an elegant and absorbing performance of middle age as a preferred mode of writing and living."
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