THE MIDDLEPAUSE (PREVIOUSLY THE MIRROR AND THE CLOCK)

Book ID/图书代码： 11980516B86812

English Summary/英文概要： In a society paradoxically obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean?

If we are forever being asked to strive to turn back the clock, and also to expect it to tick on almost forever, while constantly checking our progress in the mirror, what then of the present? How should a fiftysomething be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?

In this subtle but scintillating, unblinking but unfooled exploration of the meanings of middle age in the modern world, Marina Benjamin looks at the evolution over recent decades of our understanding of the purposes and perils of this period in life, and examines her own sudden, brutal propulsion into menopause and into a new definition of her self as daughter, mother, citizen and woman. She deals with pinnacles and pain, mortality and the marginal, loss and lingerie, memory and milestones.

For all those who find themselves around fifty questioning anew their role and their aim as old aims and old roles decay or depart, for those who do not deny it or run away from it, The Middlepause offers an inspired and expanded vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously, without sentiment or self-delusion. Marina reads the seers and the sages, and winnows out their chaff, before returning to us with her own inspirational harvest of hard-won and hard-edged knowledge in the form of this bountiful book.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当今社会存在一个矛盾，人们既希望活得更加长寿，又想要看上去更年轻，那中年在如今意味着什么呢？

如果我们一直努力地想要让时光倒流，又希望它永不止息地前行，在镜子中不断地查看我们是否又新增了一条皱纹，时光的意义到底何在呢？在一个不断重新定义衰老、青春和经历的世界，五十多岁的人们该如何生活呢？

在这本微妙、智慧、坚定的书籍中，玛利亚探索了在现代生活中，中年人的意义、以及在过去的几十年间，人们对于中年的目标和挑战观念的改变，并审视了自己在突然地、残酷地步入更年期后，对自己作为女儿、母亲、市民和女人角色上的改变。她所面对的问题有巅峰与痛苦、死亡与边缘、失去与内衣、记忆与里程碑。

这本书是写给所有处于五十几岁，原先的目标和角色都已经衰弱或者已无意义，正要重新定义自我的人们。《中年危机》为中年人提供了一个充满启迪意义也更为开阔的视角，使他们更加快乐和谐，而不是失去信心，自欺欺人。玛丽安读过许多先知和世俗的观点，并从中取其精华、去其糟粕，通过这本书向读者展示她精心归纳的知识和观点。（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：Korean rights have been sold this week to Woongjin.

“Women do a lot of things to mark turning fifty. Go to a resort! Have a bang-up party! Far, far better: read The Middlepause.” —Jill Lepore, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman

“We are not supposed to beguile, we the middle-aged women. But with The Middlepause, Marina Benjamin does that: she beguiles and entrances with a lyrical, thoughtful, erudite, and always lucid exploration of the middle years of her life, and what they mean to her, and what middle-aged women mean to society.” —Rose George, author of Ninety Percent of Everything and The Big Necessity

“Intimate, open-hearted, clever and kind, this book is a companion which, by naming the shadow fears, finds the truer gold.” —Jay Griffiths, author of The Wild: An Elemental Journey

“While The Middlepause is indeed intellectual and cultivated, Benjamin also speaks directly to a sense of communal, lived experience. . . . She writes so perceptively about the familiar that she effortlessly freshens and elevates it.” —Isabel Berick, Financial Times

“I loved this candid and beautifully written ’wrinkles and all’ meditation on the middle years.” —Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller, “Editor’s Choice”

“Benjamin takes the process of self-help thoughtfully. For starters, to recognise change, rather than deny it, is to begin to deal with it.” —Iain Finlayson, Saga Magazine

“For emotional honesty, look to a midlife memoir from Marina Benjamin.” —Tom Gatti, The New Statesman, “The books to look out for in 2016”

“This gentle but honest book should be standard reading for friends and loved-ones of women trying to make sense of this transitional stage in life.” —Sue Wright, The Malcontent

“Lucid and sophisticated. . . . The Middlepause is a restrained but wonderful guide to the convulsive changes of 50 and over. . . . This is a book that yields valuable insights on almost every page.” —Melissa Benn, The Guardian

“In The Middlepause, Marina Benjamin takes a candid look at what it means to be 50 today. . . . It’s warm, wise and beautifully written.” —Good Housekeeping (UK)

“This book does not contain advice on diet, yoga, emollients or wardrobe makeovers. Marina Benjamin instead pursues an intellectual perspective of her journey to 50. . . . As a means of inducting younger women into the business of getting older, this is a welcome narrative.” —Deirdre Conroy, Irish Independent

“The Middlepause isn’t some deluding self-help book that insists middle-age is a time of great growth for us all. It’s an accurate and thoughtful assessment of the credit and debit sheet, and it remains emotionally genuine throughout. . . . This is a thoughtful, compassionate and wise book.” —Shiny New Books

About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽安•本杰明是一位应该的作者和编辑。她已经写过两部回忆录，其中《火箭的梦想》入围了尤金•艾玛奖，《在巴比伦的最后几天》入围了温盖特奖。她也从事记者的工作，为许多英国报纸供稿，并担任《新政治家》艺术编辑和《伦敦晚报》的副艺术编辑。她目前是电子杂志《万古》的资深编辑，并且是皇家文学基金会的线上周刊《文集》的创办编辑。

Marina Benjamin is a UK writer and editor. She’s the author of two previous memoirs, Rocket Dreams, shortlisted for the Eugene Emme Award, and Last Days in Babylon, longlisted for the Wingate Prize. She has also worked as a journalist, writing for most of the British broadsheets and serving as arts editor at the New Statesman and deputy arts editor at the Evening Standard. She is currently senior editor at the digital magazine Aeon, and is the founding editor of the Royal Literary Fund’s online weekly publication Collected.

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