Small Comforts

Name: Small Comforts
Brand: Kent State University Press
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Essays at Middle Age

By: The Kent State University Press

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Paperback | 30 August 2008

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Small Comforts 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 look at 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 process of getting older. Hammond's diverse musings on time and its effects will prompt an oddly calming discovery that many problems usually identified as "midlife" issues have actually been with us since childhood. In the narrator's seriocomic self-effacement, Small Comforts embodies midlife retrospection with humor and tender nostalgia and is certain to appeal to the ever-growing middle-aged population.

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with Old Age / Advice about Ageing Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose Society & Culture Social Groups Age Groups Age Groups for Adults Biographies & True Stories Biographies

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Wisdom of Sea Monkeys	p. 1
A Room of My Own	p. 17
Egypt Land	p. 29
Bad Scouts and Nervous Indians	p. 43
Milton at the Bat	p. 57
I Want to Jump, But I'm Afraid I'll Fall	p. 75
Reference Works	p. 91
Brushes with Greatness	p. 109
Middle-Aged Marxist	p. 119
Night Moves	p. 141
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?	p. 157
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