In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age Teen & Young Adult European Historical Fiction Vicki tries to figure out

Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide

ISBN13: 9780849900822 ISBN10: 0849900824 Material Type: hardcover

she argues that we—as a culture and as individuals—have learned to avoid facing pain

and a great deal of grit

The Physician as Witness and the Criminal Defendant

In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age Teen & Young Adult European Historical Fiction Vicki tries to figure outFrom the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important and immensely readable book finally fills the gap. In Our Prime is a biography of the idea of middle age from