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Between a rock and a hot place : why fifty is not the new thirty / Tracey Jackson.

by Jackson, Tracey.

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HarperCollins, c2011.

Jackson, Tracey.

Middle-aged women -- Psychology.

9780061669279 (hbk.)

006166927X (hbk.)

287 p. ; 22 cm.

Fifty years of fifty -- Menopause or menostop? -- Sex, estrogen and not so much rock and roll -- If I'm thirty, why do I need a colonscopy? -- If she's fifty, chances are Alice doesn't work here anymore -- The biggest pink slip you will ever get -- You don't look fifty -- I didn't mean to spend it all -- Maddening men -- Ready or not, here death comes -- The flashlight at the end of the tunnel.

A funny, fearless, no-holds-barred look at aging--hormone replacement therapy, online dating, eye lifts, and all. As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded--at the gym, at parties, in conversations with friends--by a catchphrase on everyone's lips: "Fifty is the new thirty." The new aphorism had apparently bloomed out of a collective sense of denial, masking the true fears of a generation unwilling to relinquish their youth. With a comedy writer's training and a screenwriter's eye for detail, Jackson skewers the myth in a hilarious and ultimately practical appraisal of what middle age really means today. Turning fifty is a wake-up call--but one that can be greeted with a plan.--From publisher description.

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