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AlbakiReads Editorial Essays on aging, loss, and a changing culture
Essays on aging, loss, and a changing culture
Richard Meltzer gathers essays shaped by the threshold between boomer identity and older age. The collection addresses bodily decline, the deaths of friends and family, and the disorienting speed of cultural change, while keeping rock music and its youth-centered legacy in view. Its subject is not aging in isolation but aging after a life closely tied to a movement associated with youth. The publisher description presents the pieces as candid and humorous, using gallows humor alongside reflections on time, mortality, and what is lost as life moves forward.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Readers interested in personal essays about later life and mortality
- Fans of writing that connects rock culture with generational experience
- Readers seeking reflections on grief, physical change, and cultural transition
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AgingMortality and griefPhysical declineGenerational identityCultural change
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Book Overview A sublime and moving collection of essays by an eloquent master writer, Autumn Rhythm is equal parts candor, courage, humor, and desperat...
A sublime and moving collection of essays by an eloquent master writer, Autumn Rhythm is equal parts candor, courage, humor, and desperation. A true-tongued, almost joyous gallows humor permeates the book, a meditation on what it's like to be on the outer edge of "boomerhood," on the cusp of official seniority; what it's like to have been so long associated with a youth movement-rock music-yet to no longer be young. Autumn Rhythm comes from a man whose work has always been music as much as it's been about it, and who now brings his syncopation of word, sound, and sense to the subject of life itself, as lived and lost: a frank, brilliant, and ultimately poetic contemplation of physical decline, the deaths of friends and family, and the confounding, ever-accelerating changes in our culture. "A rant in [Meltzer's] finest and funniest manner, an epic vernacular monologue with stylistic roots in nineteenth-century humorists Bill Nye, Artemus Ward, and Mark Twain."
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 224 | Language: English | Publisher: DA CAPO PR | ISBN: 0306813815
FormatPaperback
Pages224
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0306813815
EAN9780306813818
PublisherDA CAPO PR
Publication Date2004-09-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Age GroupUncategorized
Weight0.55 Pounds
Length8.0 Inches
Width5.18 Inches
Height0.61 Inches
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