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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.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (25)
Includes Goodreads
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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