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Calling It Quits: Late-Life Divorce and Starting Over
Author(s): Deirdre Bair (Author)
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publication Date: 23 Jan. 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 326 pages
- ISBN-10: 1400064481
- ISBN-13: 9781400064489
Book Description
Examines the growing phenomenon of late-life divorces, revealing what leads to the end of long-term marriages, what life is like for the divorced partners, and the impact of their parents’ split on adult children of divorce.
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About the Author
Deirdre Bair is the critically acclaimed author of four previous works of nonfiction. She received the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography, and her biographies of Anaïs Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were also prize finalists. Her biography of C. G. Jung was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and received the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She has been awarded fellowships from (among others) the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She has been a literary journalist and university professor of comparative literature and now divides her time between New York and Connecticut.
