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My Life in the Middle Ages : A Survivor's Tale (Audio CD) (Abridged)
My Life in the Middle Ages A Survivor's Tale - Audio CD - Abridged
Author: James Atlas
What is the most baffling period in our lives? Not childhood, not old age, but the decades of our forties and fifties, the period now generously known as middle age. It's both an occasion for regret and an opportunity for coming to terms, the moment when we come up against our limits and discover -- for better and worse -- who we are. — My...  more » is a portrait of what that unnerving experience is like. A collection of unified pieces about the pleasures and pathos that attend the threshold of old age, it charts an original course between reportage and confession. Drawn from the author's own life, from the testimony of parents, children, teachers, and friends, from the books he's read and the life that he chose -- and that chose him -- My Life in the Middle Ages is a comic and poignant memoir that's both personal and generational.

Whether he is struggling with God (or trying to find out if he believes in one), celebrating the books he's loved and regretting those he'll never read, leafing through the snapshots in his family album and marveling at the passage of time, or parsing the fine points of success and failure, James Atlas is always alert to the surprises of everyday life.

At once pensive and funny, lighthearted and profound, My Life in the Middle Ages is a tale of survival, but also a meditation on how it feels to flourish -- and how to live.

Read by the author; abridged.  5 CDs, 6 hrs.
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ISBN-13: 9780060763343
ISBN-10: 0060763345
Publication Date: 3/1/2005
Edition: Abridged
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Publisher: HarperAudio
Book Type: Audio CD
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 jamiG avatar reviewed My Life in the Middle Ages : A Survivor's Tale (Audio CD) (Abridged) on + 37 more book reviews
This is a wonderful look at life and death and figuring out where we find meaning, purpose and direction. This is a great listen as the author does a wonderful read.


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