Time's Bounty: Rethinking Aging

ISBN: 1567928447

Author: Weinstein, Philip

Condition: New

A guide to growing old with grace and wisdom.-KirkusAn elegant rumination....Wise, unvarnished.-Publishers WeeklyChange your perspective about aging. Here is a bracing view of the surprises that lie ahead, as age enkindles in us new expressions of life.Our culture isnt kind towards age. The dominant drive is to celebrate youth, and striving for more and more of everything, while age, were told, brings only depletion and loss. Even as Americans live longer, most consider old age with dread. Its time to challenge these assumptions.As author Philip Weinstein writes, Old-age situations, assumed to announce the end-of-the-road, actually generate fresh life-moves. As we age, we tend to become lighter in more senses than one....Indeed, we may find ourselves catapulted into late-stage adventures the young never dream of.Times Bounty offers a view of age that differs greatly from our preconceptions-surprising, emancipating, sometimes even joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the generative discoveries that age occasions to the freedom that comes in lifes late chapters, when no company or institution or cause any longer owns us. At last, we are our own, in ways we could not imagine when younger.Weinstein, a retired professor of English, draws not only on his own insights but on the insights found in writers he taught for decades: Shakespeare, Yeats, Proust, Faulkner, Eliot, Beckett, and others. Brief forays into their imaginative works add further illumination to the authors own discoveries regarding the dramas-both the trials and the gifts-of old age.Whatever your own lifes season, whether youre still in the Spring or deep into lifes Winter, Times Bounty will change the way you think about age.