Invitation to the Life Course
Subtitle: Toward New Understandings of Later Life (Society and Aging Series)
Publisher: Baywood Publishing Company
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780895032690
Subjects: Anthropology; Life cycle, Human; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - General; Gerontology; Aging
First sentence: In Michael Ondaatje's (1992, p.261) novel The English Patient, the character Almasy has a profound revelation as he carries his dead lover Katherine into the desert: We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.