Love in the Second Act: True Stories of Romance, Midlife and Beyond

By Alison Leslie Gold

Book Overview

Inspiring stories of individuals--aged 46 to 97--who experienced a resurgence of passion in their lives when they least expected it.F. Scott Fitzgerald believed there are no second acts in American... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585424668
• ISBN13: 9781585424665
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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There are so many jewels in this book. I have not yet finished reading it, but already have been charmed and delighted by the imagery and magic of real stories of love in the 'second act'. It is much more than I expected, it goes beyond finding relationships to the joy of experiencing love at a new level, a deeper level. Meet 97 year old Joe, who conjures up the image of an ancient yew tree: " ...that has grown vertically in its youth and horizontally in midlife...producing new living roots that feed on the soil, pushing down and down." Love sometimes comes in a back door you left open...I skipped to the back of the book to read the story of the Mansfield-Greenwald family and was deeply moved by their journey to China to adopt their daughters. This book should be read slowly to hear the beauty in it.