Mid Life Mojo: A Guide for the Newly Single Male [Paperback]

Robert Murray Davis (Author), Rocio Bernicio (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2003

As essential to the survival of the retread bachelor as take-out and microwave dinners... Mid-Life Mojo draws on research, common sense and extensive field experience to trace the pangs of the newly-single life, and the pitfalls and rewards of picking up the pieces and moving on in mature and productive ways.

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About the Author

Since his divorce twenty years ago, Robert M. Davis has traveled and lectured extensively in Canada and Europe and has shifted his major emphasis as a writer from modern literature to broader aspects of contemporary culture.

Recent books include the reminiscent social histories MID-LANDS: A FAMILY ALBUM, about growing up in middle America after the second world war, A LOWER-MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION, about college life in the early 1950s, and the cultural commentary PLAYING COWBOYS: LOW CULTURE AND HIGH ART IN THE WESTERN.

His poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared, in English and in translation, in magazines and newspapers in seven countries as well as the United States. Recently he has written about the American west for the Denver POST and other journals.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Oak Tree Press; 1st edition (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892343177
• ISBN-13: 978-1892343178
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,606,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Murray Davis taught in five American, two Canadian, and two Hungarian universities over forty-five years. He has also lectured and given poetry readings in a dozen countries. Besides literary criticism and scholarship, much of it on Evelyn Waugh and on the American West, he has published four books of creative nonfiction, including "Mid-Lands: A Family Album," "The Ornamental Hermit: People and Places of the New West," and "Midlife Mojo: A Guide for the Newly Single Male," and the cultural study "The Literature of Post-Communist Slovena, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania." His collection of personal essays, "Born-Again Skeptic & Other Valedictions," was published in 2011. Currently he is working on another volume of essays with the working title of "Utility Man," a book about the Jemez Valley of New Mexico, and collections of essays about the American West and about British writers of the 1930s. He is also editing the variorum edition of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" for the Oxford University Press edition of the Complete Works. lives in Arizona and is an independent writer, lecturer, and consultant.