Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) |
Summary |
A funny, fearless, no-holds-barred look at aging--hormone replacement therapy, online dating, eye lifts, and all. As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded--at the gym, at parties, in conversations with friends--by a catchphrase on everyone's lips: "Fifty is the new thirty." The new aphorism had apparently bloomed out of a collective sense of denial, masking the true fears of a generation unwilling to relinquish their youth. With a comedy writer's training and a screenwriter's eye for detail, Jackson skewers the myth in a hilarious and ultimately practical appraisal of what middle age really means today. Turning fifty is a wake-up call--but one that can be greeted with a plan.--From publisher description. |
Contents |
Fifty years of fifty -- Menopause or menostop? -- Sex, estrogen and not so much rock and roll -- If I'm thirty, why do I need a colonscopy? -- If she's fifty, chances are Alice doesn't work here anymore -- The biggest pink slip you will ever get -- You don't look fifty -- I didn't mean to spend it all -- Maddening men -- Ready or not, here death comes -- The flashlight at the end of the tunnel. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
Jackson, Tracey.
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Middle-aged women -- Psychology.
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Aging.
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Aging. (DNLM)D000375
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Women -- Middle Aged.
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Women -- psychology.
(DNLM)D014930Q000523
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SELF-HELP.
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Jackson, Tracey. (OCoLC)fst01784963
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Aging. (OCoLC)fst00800293
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Middle aged women -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst01020426
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Jackson, Tracey. Between a rock and a hot place. 1st ed. New York : Harper, ©2011 9780061669279 (DLC) 2010028725 (OCoLC)641532485 |
ISBN |
9780062042422 (electronic bk.) |
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0062042424 (electronic bk.) |
Music No. |
EB00236758 Recorded Books |
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