{"product_id":"the-50-year-dash-the-feelings-foibles-and-fears-of-being-half-a-century-old-bob-greene","title":"The 50 Year Dash: The Feelings, Foibles, and Fears of Being Half a Century Old Bob Greene","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA man turning 50 was asked if he really felt middle-aged.  \"I don't feel middle-aged,\" he replied.  \"I feel like a teenager who's been in a fight.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat funny, chin-up, defiant declaration captures Bob Greene's own feelings about life at the big five-oh, and sets the tone for this wonderful new book of reflections on family, career, money, sex, mortality, friendship, regrets, memories, doctors, rivals, yearnings, sleep, lust, embarrassments, and horizons.   The 50-Year Dash touches on everything that's part of life at looking at aches and pains as a growth industry, and seeing the constant onslaught of new pain relievers as a modern version of the British invasion of rock groups in the 1960s; finding that the world is no longer sufficiently quiet, and that you're the one yelling \"Turn that down!\"; realizing you're older than James Bond ever was; hearing yourself say, \"The fruit plate looks good,\" and meaning it; understanding that the one thing which seems to be going away from you the fastest is that first-time feeling--first job, first house, first kiss--and knowing that the best thing you can do for yourself is try to keep finding that feeling again and again.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween now and the year 2014, 77 million American men and women will turn 50, entering a strange land that once seemed so far away.   The 50-Year Dash is a whimsical, wise, funny, bittersweet, evocative, nostalgic book to take along on the journey.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBob Greene's national bestsellers include Be True to Your Schoo l; Hang Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan; Good Morning, Merry Sunshine ; and, with his sister, D.G. Fulford, To Our Children's Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come .  Greene is a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune ; his column appears in more than two hundred newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Japan.  For nine years his \"American Beat\" was the lead column in Esquire magazine; and as a broadcast journalist he has served as contributing correspondent for ABC News Nightline .   The 50-Year Dash is his sixteenth book.  His next-- Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights --will be published in the fall of 1997.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44160316309731,"sku":"EXL1451","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/files\/4027985.jpg?v=1700598570","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/the-50-year-dash-the-feelings-foibles-and-fears-of-being-half-a-century-old-bob-greene","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}