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The Resource On being 40(ish), edited by Lindsey Mead

On being 40(ish), edited by Lindsey Mead

Label
On being 40(ish)
Title
On being 40(ish)
Statement of responsibility
edited by Lindsey Mead
Title variation
  • On being fortyish
  • On being forty (ish)
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"In this dazzling collection, fifteen writers explore this rich phase in essays that are profound and moving and above all, brimming with joie de vivre. This diverse array of voices including Veronica Chambers, Meghan Daum, Kate Bolick, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Sloane Crosley, KJ DellAntonia, Julie Klam, Jessica Lahey, Catherine Newman, Sujean Rim, Jena Schwartz, Sophfronia Scott, Allison Winn Scotch, Lee Woodruff, and Jill Kargmanoffer exciting, deeply personal, and poignant perspectives across a range of themes friendshipfriendship, independence, sex, beauty, aging, wisdom, and the passage of time."--Amazon.com
Biography type
collective biography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 920.72/0973
  • 808.849354
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
CT3260
LC item number
.P74 2019
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Mead, Lindsey
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Women
  • Maturation (Psychology)
  • Aging
  • Maturation (Psychology)
  • Aging
  • Women
  • United States
Label
On being 40(ish), edited by Lindsey Mead
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The biggest surprise of life after forty is ...
  • What we talk about when we talk about our face
  • Sloane Crosley
  • Why I didn't answer your email
  • KJ Dell'Antonia
  • I became an actress at thirty-nine
  • Jill Kargman
  • The single most important lesson I've learned in my life so far is ...
  • Poetry: Inheritance and tip of my tongue
  • Jena Schwartz
  • Introduction
  • Adaptation of life
  • Kate Bolick
  • There's a metaphor here
  • Allison Winn Scotch
  • The breathtaking potential of the attosecond
  • Jessica Lahey
  • The people who got me here
  • Julie Klam
  • Illustration: Tried that, doing me
  • Sujean Rim
  • Lindsey Mead
  • I don't have time for this
  • Sophfronia Scott
  • Youth dew
  • Lee Woodruff
  • Quantum physics for birthdays
  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner
  • The quote or mantra that most speaks to me about this moment in my life is ...
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Same life, higher rent
  • Meghan Daum
  • Soulmates: a timeline in clothing
  • Catherine Newman
  • It's a game of two halves
  • Veronica Chambers
Control code
on1027738905
Dimensions
19 cm
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
xxi, 229 pages
Isbn
9781501172144
Lccn
2017061050
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
color illustrations
Label
On being 40(ish), edited by Lindsey Mead
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The biggest surprise of life after forty is ...
  • What we talk about when we talk about our face
  • Sloane Crosley
  • Why I didn't answer your email
  • KJ Dell'Antonia
  • I became an actress at thirty-nine
  • Jill Kargman
  • The single most important lesson I've learned in my life so far is ...
  • Poetry: Inheritance and tip of my tongue
  • Jena Schwartz
  • Introduction
  • Adaptation of life
  • Kate Bolick
  • There's a metaphor here
  • Allison Winn Scotch
  • The breathtaking potential of the attosecond
  • Jessica Lahey
  • The people who got me here
  • Julie Klam
  • Illustration: Tried that, doing me
  • Sujean Rim
  • Lindsey Mead
  • I don't have time for this
  • Sophfronia Scott
  • Youth dew
  • Lee Woodruff
  • Quantum physics for birthdays
  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner
  • The quote or mantra that most speaks to me about this moment in my life is ...
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Same life, higher rent
  • Meghan Daum
  • Soulmates: a timeline in clothing
  • Catherine Newman
  • It's a game of two halves
  • Veronica Chambers
Control code
on1027738905
Dimensions
19 cm
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
xxi, 229 pages
Isbn
9781501172144
Lccn
2017061050
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
color illustrations

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