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Coming of Age

Biography and Memoir

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Coming of Age

My Journey to the EightiesBy Madeleine May KuninNarrated by Madeleine May Kunin

Coming of Age

Length3h 30m

About this audiobook

Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former threeterm governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her newest book, a memoir entitled Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, the topic is aging, but she looks well beyond the physical tolls and explores the emotional ones as well. And she has had an extraordinary life: governor, ambassador, feminist, wife, mother, professor, poet, and much, much more. As recently reported in the New York Times, a girl born today can expect to live to the age of ninety, on average (boys, on the other hand, can expect to live until age eightyfive). Life expectancy, for many, is increasing, yet people rarely contemplate the emotional changes that come alongside the physical changes of aging. Madeleine wants to change that. Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties takes a close and incisive look at what it is like to grow old. The book is a memoir, yet most important of all, it is an honest and positive look at aging and how it has affected her life. Cover photo © Todd Lockwood.

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Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir

Length3 hrs 30 mins

Narrated byMadeleine May Kunin

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateSep 1, 2019

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Intro

21Findingaaseat

2Eightyfouryears

22Teeth

3Foreword

23Alone

4Nolonger

24Autumn

5Theyeariturnedeighty

25Independence

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6Thebed

26Ants

7Iamnotold

27Searchingforthepast

8Wheniwassick

28Christmascookies

9Attraction

29Mybrothersdeath

10Cantherebemoretosay

30Planets

11Thecanethewalkerthewheelchair

31Myfleetingsenses

12Chrysalis

32Newyearseveatwakerobin

13Lateinlifelove

33Howwillidie

14Ilovedyouwhenyoudidthedishes

34Lastspring

15Fatbacks

35Thelake

16Hands

36Alovepoem

17Mymotherthemanicure

37Afterword

18December 212016

38Abouttheauthor

19Downsizing

39Outro

20Iammultiples

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