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Breaking the watch : the meanings of retirement in America / Joel S. Savishinsky.
LIBRA HQ1063.2.U6 S39 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savishinsky, Joel S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Retirement--United States.
- Retirement.
- Retirees--Recreation--United States.
- Retirees.
- Retirees--Recreation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the poignancy and poetry of the everyday
- A first cup : at the firehouse : the unbearable lightness of retirement : ritual and support at the end of work
- A second cup : life is what happens
- Zen masters and master planners : how people prepare for later life
- A third cup : how do you catalog this?
- At work, at home, at large : the sense of person and place
- A fourth cup : behind the mirror
- Looking for the light : the search for passion and purpose in maturity
- A fifth cup : around the lake : the kaleidoscope and the conspirators : kinship, friendship, and meaning among elders
- A sixth cup : the incompleat fatalist
- Death and taxes : dealing with health, finances, and fate in retirement
- Conclusions : lessons and cautions : a final cup : the broken watch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801437717
- OCLC:
- 43929824
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