Essays on turning fifty, with full color art. Birthday gift book.
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From Publishers Weekly
The 50th birthday, in the view of Hauser, a Minneapolis-based writer (Girl to Woman) and Public Radio commentator, is "especially poignant because it is the first decade marker that offers no comfort when we doubt it." Her own arrival at that marker is charted in this collection of 13 reflective essays, one for each cycle of the moon, in which she journeys toward appreciation of age and aging, celebrating life's cycles and, she hopes, arriving at acceptance and understanding of self. These graceful meditations--on her husband, Bill, who is 27 years her senior; on the death of a friend from breast cancer; on the comfort of having a "grown-up child"--are dotted with wry humor and complemented by the delicate art of California-based Barbara Van Arnam. Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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These graceful meditations are dotted with wry humor and complemented by the delicate art of California-based Barbara Van Arnam. -- Publishers Weekly, 1996
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Susan Carol Hauser
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Hauser is an established writer with four natural history books published by The Lyons Press and Falcon Guides (Globe Pequot), a book on memoir writing with Writer's Digest Books, and seven books with literary presses.
Her book on a Mississippi River trip is scheduled for publication June 2011 by the Center for American Places, Columbia College Chicago (George Thompson, editor).
She has published scholarly articles in Scribner's American Writers series and her freelance work has been published in The Sun, the Old Farmer's Almanac and many other magazines and journals.
Her numerous awards and grants include a 2010 McKnight Artist Fellowship in poetry.
She was a commentator on National Public Radio's "Living on Earth" for four years and has been a guest on Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion."
www.susancarolhauser.com
BLOG susancarolhauser.wordpress.com
Hauser is an established writer with four natural history books published by The Lyons Press and Falcon Guides (Globe Pequot), a book on memoir writing with Writer's Digest Books, and seven books with literary presses.
Her book on a Mississippi River trip is scheduled for publication June 2011 by the Center for American Places, Columbia College Chicago (George Thompson, editor).
She has published scholarly articles in Scribner's American Writers series and her freelance work has been published in The Sun, the Old Farmer's Almanac and many other magazines and journals.
Her numerous awards and grants include a 2010 McKnight Artist Fellowship in poetry.
She was a commentator on National Public Radio's "Living on Earth" for four years and has been a guest on Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion."
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Susan Hauser makes you actually look forward to being fifty!,
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This review is from: Full Moon: Reflections on Turning Fifty (Hardcover)
With her wise and witty stories, full of insight and the kind of understanding only time can bring, Susan Hauser takes us away from our cultural conditioning, our dread of getting older. When we have spent a gentle evening with this poetic gifted woman, listening to her tales of her own coming of age, we begin to listen to the quiet wisdom of our own hearts. We laugh too, when Susan at a garage sale picks up a dress that had once been hers and holds it up to her now ample body. "I was thin once, and I missed it," she says. Some of us are fifty now, and we don't want to miss it. Reading Full Moon at Fifty is a joy.
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