Flying Solo: Single Women in Midlife - Hardcover

Anderson, Carol M.; Stewart, Susan; Dimidjian, Sona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393036367 ISBN 13: 9780393036367

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994

Synopsis

A pair of family therapists interview single, divorced, and widowed women in the middle of life across the country, offering lessons in living richly and rewardingly by making the most of one's freedom and independence. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol M. Anderson, Ph.D., is a professor at University of Pittsburgh Medical School.

From Booklist:

Family therapist Anderson and her coauthors chronicle the ups (mostly) and downs (minimized) of 40- to 45-year-old single women in a manner intended to evoke cheers. Based on a two-year study of 87 women, their book details, more objectively than existing self-help manuals, both the joys and the travails of living alone. Peppering their work with quotes from their subjects, the authors start and end by emphasizing the gift of going solo, and in the middle, they discuss destroying the myths of spinster-ship, overcoming divorce and the never-married syndrome, exchanging fantasies for real-life dreams, dealing with relationships, and managing the chores of everyday living. Their positive outlook is contagious and obliterates the Harvard-Yale-Newsweek contention that single women over 40 have less chance to marry than to be taken hostage by a terrorist. Even Gloria Steinem would approve. Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0393036367
• ISBN 13: 9780393036367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288