{"product_id":"9780692753996","title":"Aging: An Apprenticeship","description":"\u003cp\u003eNan Narboe's 56 thoughtfully selected essays offer an intimate and lyrical account of aging through the decades.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthors Judy Blume, Andrew McCarthy, Gloria Steinem, Donald Hall, David Shields, Ursula K. Le Guin and others draw from their own experiences, describing a specific decade’s losses and gains to form a complex and unflinching portrait of the years from nearing fifty to ninety and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn six sections, these detail-rich essays paint an accessible picture of nearing 50, the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, the 90s and beyond with equal parts humor and insight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on seven decades worth of experiences, the selected essays offer a clear-eyed composition of narratives, each narrative as important as the one before it. In Paul Casey's \"Katie Couric Is No Friend of Mine,\" a colonoscopy, not a red convertible, marks his initiation into mid-life. Germaine Koh, in \"Thoughts on Aging,\" is the oldest player in her roller derby league, confounded by her changing body. Ursula K. Le Guin’s \"Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts about Beauty” meditates on human self-consciousness—it is aging humans who find their bodies surprising. And in \"Death,\" Donald Hall rejects euphemisms: he’s not going to “pass away;” he’s going to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014463635696,"sku":"9780692753996","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692753996_p0.jpg?v=1763616969","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692753996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}