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Aging & Ending: A first-year baby boomer looks back and ahead

by Michael N. Marcus

A wide-ranging comic look at life’s later chapters

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A wide-ranging comic look at life’s later chapters

Framed by a first-year baby boomer looking both backward and forward, Aging & Ending gathers observations on an intentionally sprawling range of subjects. Michael N. Marcus moves from everyday food, family, pets, books, travel, medicine, and technology to larger questions involving belief, mortality, history, conflict, and human behavior. The supplied description presents the book as mostly humorous, with death and aging appearing alongside comic pairings, oddities, memories, and cultural references. Its breadth suggests a miscellany of short-form reflections and anecdotes rather than a single sustained argument, using the author’s long personal perspective as its connecting thread.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in humorous reflections on aging and everyday life
  • Fans of wide-ranging personal observations, cultural references, and comic miscellany
  • Readers open to humor that touches on mortality, family, religion, and social behavior

Themes

Aging and mortalityHumor and observationMemory and familyEveryday cultureHuman and animal behavior

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Book overview

Michael N. Marcus is a journalist, editor, bestselling author of more than 40 books, award-winning advertising copywriter, publisher, gourmand, nitpicker, raconteur and mostly successful amateur attorney. He lives in Connecticut with wife Marilyn, the ghost of their golden retriever Hunter, lots of books, movies, and black boxes with flashing lights.

He says, "This is my 42nd book. I hope it's not my last book, but maybe it's my best book. I've enjoyed writing and reading it-and I am hard to please."

After nearly eight decades observing, analyzing and evaluating human and animal behavior, Marcus has many interests and a lot to say about a lot of things.

Book topics range from creation to cremation, plus androids & apologies, license plates & poetic license, Ann landers & Chef Boyardee, kasha & kale, egg creams & beer, war & peace, pumice & Pumas, pizza & pasta, scrovney & fibbling juice, Bronx & Brooklyn, Roman emperors & Greek gods, Karl Marx & Groucho Marx, Heaven & Hell, love & hate, rabbis and priests, stuffed animals & real ones, Mother Nature & Sisters, electrocution & resurrection, reading & writing, skiing & SCUBA diving, lettuce & lawsuits, beards & baldness, rubber alligators & rubbers, lasagna & lima beans, memories & mammaries, t-shirts & jock straps, kids & parents, seasonings & seasons, music & modeling, surgery & sinecure, medication & defecation, cars & bicycles, bullshit & reality, cops & robbers, April Fools & Halloween, chick magnetism & menage a trois, media malfunctions, a giant penguin, an exploding belly... and more.

The book is mostly mirthful and minimally morbid, and there's something in it for everyone..
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