Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other adult milestones - Couverture souple

Doyle PhD, Briohny

 
9781911344285: Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other adult milestones
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ISBN 10 : 1911344285 ISBN 13 : 9781911344285
Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2017

Synopsis

I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky: the sound of a cultural clock counting me out of youth.

Briohny Doyle turned thirty without a clear idea of what her adult life should look like. The world she lived in with its global economic uncertainty, political conservatism, and precarious employment conditions didn t match the one her parents grew up in. She read article after article about the reluctance of millennials to embrace the traditional markers of adulthood: a stable job, a house in the suburbs, a nuclear family. But do these emblems of maturity mean the same thing today as they did thirty years ago?

In this smart, spirited enquiry, Doyle examines whether millennials are redefining what it means to be an adult now. Blending personal essay and cultural critique, she ventures into the big claims of philosophy and the neon buzz of pop culture to ask: in a rapidly changing world, do the so-called adult milestones distract us from other measures of maturity?

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À propos de l'auteur

Briohny Doyle is a writer and academic, and an inaugural winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. In 2017, she was a recipient of an Endeavour Fellowship for research based at Yale and the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was nominated for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year. Her debut novel, The Island Will Sink, was published to acclaim in 2016.

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Éditeur
Scribe Publications
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1911344285
ISBN 13 
9781911344285
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
https://www.buchpark.de

Krügerweg 1
Trebbin
Brandenburg
14959
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9781925322163: Adult Fantasy: Searching for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Adult Milestones

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ISBN 10 :  1925322165 ISBN 13 :  9781925322163
Editeur : Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd, 2017
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