Research Catalog

Title

Small comforts : essays at middle age / Jeffrey Hammond.

Author

Safe Driver A. D. I.

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2008.

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Description

x, 170 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Small Comforts quietly probes the mysteries of an ordinary life when reviewed at middle age. Essayist Jeff Hammond, a midcareer academic who examines a variety of lifelong obsessions, frustrates any expectation that life's fogs dissipate as we age. At stake here is the need for those of us who have reached a "certain age" to look at who we have become with courage, honesty, and humor." "Beneath the discoveries of a sometimes bewildered narrator lurks that strange sense of liberation that can brighten the process of getting older. Hammond's diverse musings on time and its effects will prompt an oddly calming discovery that many problems usually identified as "midlife" issues have actually been with us since childhood."--book jacket.

Subject

• Middle-aged persons > Miscellanea
• Middle age > Miscellanea
• Aging > Miscellanea

Genre/Form

Trivia and miscellanea

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Wisdom of Sea Monkeys -- A Room of My Own -- Egypt Land -- Bad Scouts and Nervous Indians -- Milton at the Bat -- I Want to Jump, But I'm Afraid I'll Fall -- Reference Works -- Brushes with Greatness -- Middle-Aged Marxist -- Night Moves -- What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

ISBN

• 9780873389464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0873389468 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008014207

OCLC

• 191927265
• SCSB-11731108

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library