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Small Comforts: Essays at Middle Age
Jeffrey Hammond
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Description for Small Comforts: Essays at Middle Age
Paperback. A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older. It examines a variety of lifelong obsessions and frustrates various expectations that life's fogs dissipate as we age. It embodies midlife retrospection suitable for middle-aged population. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 277.
This is a reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older.""Small Comforts"" is a work of creative nonfiction that 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 examine 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 ... Read more
This is a reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older.""Small Comforts"" is a work of creative nonfiction that 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 examine 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9780873389464
SKU
V9780873389464
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99-1
About Jeffrey Hammond
Jeffrey Hammond, George B. and Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts, teaches English and American literature, biblical and classical literature, and nonfiction writing. He has published three books in his primary field of early American literature, including The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His creative nonfiction, which has won a Pushcart ... Read more
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