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ISBN13: 9780940134003 ISBN10: 0940134004 Material Type: hardcover

In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age Teen & Young Adult European Historical Fiction she argues that we—as aFrom 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