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Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel
Safe at Last in the Middle Years The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel Author:Margaret Morganroth Gullette Discovering the midlife progress novel, Gullette finds in recent fiction a pervasive tension between decline and a better ideology of aging. “Appropriately, she invites the reader to join the writers in their ‘therapeutic discourse.’” --Rosemary Franklin, American Literature — “[This] book certainly mak... more »es you think. What is it that can happen in middle age to make it -- as it is for many people -- the clearest and sweetest time of life?” --Frank Conroy, New York Times
Chapters include:
Introduction: "The years teach much ..."
Safe at last
Healing fictions
John Updike: Rabbit Angstrom grows up
Ugly ducklings and swans: Margaret Drabble's fable of progress