Elder Rage, or Take My Father... Please!: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents

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A riveting, often humorous, non-fiction novel that chronicles Jacqueline Marcell's trials and tribulations, and eventual success at managing the care of her aging parents. Elder Rage is also an extensive self-help book with solutions for effective management, medically and behaviorally, of challenging elders who resist care. Includes answers to difficult "how to" questions like: getting obstinate elders to give up driving, accept a caregiver, see a different doctor, go to adult day care, move to a new residence--and includes a wealth of valuable resources, websites and recommended reading. The addendum by renowned dementia specialist, Rodman Shankle, MS MD: A Physician's Guide to Treating Dementia, makes it valuable for everyone from the family to the physician. Elder Rage is required reading at several universities for graduate courses in geriatric assessment and management.

Customer Reviews:

A+.......2007-10-02

What an awesome book--nonfiction meets "can't put it down". If you want to laugh, cry, have your frustrations and feelings validated, learn to cope with caregiving stress, PLUS receive lots of helpful info, this book is for you. A must-read for anyone caring for any type patient, demetia or not!

My copy is worn out from passing it around.......2007-09-02

I showed this book to my walking buddy, my hairstylist, well, just about anyone who ever vented about their frustrating world of elder care. I even sent a copy to my middle-born son in D.C. We need someone who understands and can guide us through the maze. This author does that, and with humor!

Wish I'd read this sooner........2007-08-09

This book was recommended to me about 7 months after my Father's sudden physical collapse. On the third day of hospitalization, he was in full blown dementia with psychotic episodes. This was a man who had been handling their investments and reading the Wall Street Journal just the previous week. Every day brought a new horror and on the fifth day we were told he had last then 6 months to live and we needed to move him from the hospital to a nursing home.

After 7 months of dealing with my brilliant but fading Father in the nursing home and my 85 year old Mother in an independent senior apartment, I found the book gave me a real perspective on just how BAD a situation can be. That eased some of my anxiety since I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Jacqueline Marcell managed to survive and care for her aging parents under a hail storm of dropping shoes.

The story, told quite humorously, really shows how dementia and its effects are under diagnosed in the early stages, how difficult it is for the doctors to get a real feel for the actual patient behavior between visits, and how heartbreakingly difficult it is for a child to wrest control from a parent with dementia, for their own good. It's emotionally and physically exhausting trying to "do the right thing" at every step of the decline, since the play book keeps changing daily.

The last part of the book sums up what she's learned through her experiences and should certainly help others avoid some of the tribulations that she went through trying to get appropriate care for her folks. The information section written by a doctor also spells out the issues of dementia and how to pursue diagnosis and care.

I laughed over her habit of using lyrics and film dialogue to make the little hell she was in more bearable. Since I frequently find my thoughts find homes in lyrics, that was perfectly understandable to me.

The book is reasuring, educational, and helps bring caring for parents with dementia down to a less stormy and more enjoyable voyage for both caregiver and parents.

I liked the book so much, I bought a second one for my girl friend who's Father is in the early stages of Alzheimers. No point in flying blind when you can have a funny, caring copilot like Jacqueline Marcell.

Thank God for Jacqueline Marcell!!!.......2007-08-02

I can't even find the words to thank this author for writing about my own trials and missteps. I was feeling every emotion, guilt, anger, love, sadness, and couldn't wrap my head around the issues I was encountering. More importantly, I thought I was alone. I was ashamed of the negative feelings I had towards my parents; parents that I love--parents that I now have to take care of on a daily basis because they no longer can care for themselves. I was angry with them when I needed to redirect my anger towards the disease that was killing them and changing their very being. Jacqueline is an Angel with a message. Read this book. Laugh with her, cry with her, learn from her.

Learn with Humor & Incite about Caring for Aging Parents.......2007-08-02

With delight I would like to recommend Jacqueline Marcell's book on dementia, entitled "Elder Rage." It is with sensitivity and wonderful humor that she explains her experiences coping with her aging parents and their crises of physical and mental health.

Her humor is wonderful in the book; as facing the mental confusion of loving parents is not something that we can easily smile about. She ends the book with valuable resources, information, and practical solutions to try when we might be faced with such concerns from our own families. This is a troubling topic, growing daily in our aging society...How should we face it; and what should we prepared ourselves for?

This is a great disclosure of interest to the medical society that deals with older patients with fading memories and personality changes, both physicians, family, and the practical staff that care for our elders. Become enlightened about this dark issue that faces so many families as our population ages. This Book-of-the-Month-Book-Club selection,will also let folks know--- that they aren't alone and that there are answers available to help, such as the Alzheimer's Association and local Senior Centers.

The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies for Men: From Heart Disease and Headaches to Flabby Abs and Road Rage, Over 2,000 Simple Solutions (Doctors' Book of Home Remedies)

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Great book of quick tips
Simple, easy to understand answers to men's health questions

The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies for Men: From Heart Disease and Headaches to Flabby Abs and Road Rage, Over 2,000 Simple Solutions (Doctors' Book of Home Remedies)
The Editors of Men's Health Books
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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ASIN: 0875965296

Book Description

Men don't like to ask directions or go to the doctor. In fact, most men are reluctant to talk about anything that's bothering them. That's why there's a major need for The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies for Men. It lets men know what they can do for themselves to improve their quality of life. Drawing on the advice of hundreds of top doctors and other experts, it offers more than 1,200 practical tips for dealing with over 170 ailments, problems, and hassles.

Rodale's bestselling The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies series has sold over 15 million copies. The series is recognized as the number one source of health and fitness information for men today. This ninth book in the series begins with "Healing from Home," which covers how to choose a doctor, when to see him, and forms of alternative medicine. Next, "Remedies" is a comprehensive A-Z section, touching on topics from abdominal fat and hemorrhoids to Internet addiction and road rage--with plenty of helpful hints on avoiding serious ills like heart disease. Finally, "In Case of Emergency" is an illustrated guide to basic crisis techniques such as CPR and removing a fishhook. This book is peppered with plenty of funny, pertinent medical facts to bring a smile to the reader's face.

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Great book of quick tips.......2002-06-03

This book is a great idea for someone that wants to solve a minor problem he may be having (such as dry hair, sunburn, or sore throat) without having to pay a doctor or look for advice for hours on the internet. This book lists several ailments and annoyances men suffer from, and provides a 2 to 5 page summary of what it is and how to treat it.

Simple, easy to understand answers to men's health questions.......1999-04-26

The practical and down to earth advice is something that anyone--even men--will find concise, helpful and authoritative.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

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Great read.
When The Village was THE Village
One Man's Account
A delightful memoir of post-war Greenwich Village
Exploring art and sex in post-war New York

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
Anatole Broyard
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517596180
Release Date: 1993-10-12

Book Description

What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgling avant-gardist, intoxicated by books, sex, and the neighborhood that offered both in such abundance. Stylish written, mercurially witty, imbued with insights that are both affectionate and astringent, this memoir offers an indelible portrait of a lost bohemia.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Great read........2007-05-17

My first reaction was, I wish I had been there too. As he said, the public was visually hungry at that time. Now the public is pretty much jaded in mho, but also, there are probably many more visual artists per capita than in 1947.
Other quotes I liked: pp129 On Delmore Schwartz, he was like the grammar-school bully who rips open your fly buttons. It was Delmore who helped me to understand what I came to think of as the malice of modern art.
pp134 The social history of the world is, in some ways, a history of censorship.

When The Village was THE Village.......2007-01-09

Returning from World War II, Anatole Broyard, a young man of New Orleans Creole stock who had grown up Brooklyn working class, took advantage of the GI Bill to jumpstart his fortunes. Manhattan beckoned across the river, and upon enrolling in The New School, he fell down the rabbit hole and into the Wonderland that was Greenwich Village. At The New School, he sat in the classes of the major intellectuals of the era, many of them from Europe. He had only just begun when he met artist Sheri Donatti, a protégé of Anais Nin, who instantly provided him with a place to live and a relationship that would come to define the entire mad scene, where everyone read Kafka and modern art was It. The old rules, whatever they were, were out the window and where Sheri was in command, the rules changed daily. Broyard, who paints himself as an outsider has enough access to the epicenter of the action and thinking of the place in this time frame to be its ideal interpreter.

This memoir covers just a couple of years, but that's enough to get down the Bohemian culture of Greenwich Village a few years before Keroauc appeared on the scene and nearly a couple of decades before the sixties would recast their own version. Broyard went on to become for 3 decades an admirable book critic for The New York Times and to live a happy, domesticated family life in the suburbs. His lucid, literate and witty style shines in KAFKA WAS THE RAGE. He was working on this memoir when he died of cancer in 1993.

One Man's Account.......2002-03-17

If you're expecting an overview of the 1940s Greenwich Village scene, adjust your expectations. This is for the most part an account of Anatole Broyard's life, as he lived in Greenwich Village in the 1940s. The focus is on Broyard's concerns of the time and his particular perceptions. It is a distinct difference.

That acknowledged, I'd like to say that I recommend the book anyway. Broyard's account is valuable for its loving criticism of the 1940s art world, for its honest recognition of the stupidity of youth, and for its meandering remembrances, repleat with similes and earnest attempts to find meaning in the past. The book is valuable because of its examination of life, an examination that is all the more interesting for the time period and the location of the subject.

I said that Broyard's account was more an account of his own life than of the times. But it is also an opinion of mine that one life tells a lot about a time period. The setting for the memoir is New York just after WWII--the whole city is glad to be alive and glad to be carefree for the first time since the beginning of the war. And Broyard's account of himself and others in the period is fascinating for that reason, for the way this made people act. Need another reason? Broyard's memoir is peppered with chance meetings with prestigious artists and writers of the time. He exposes the mentality they all lived with--the way they lived with art the way other young people live with football or pop music. He exposes the advantages and disadvantages that that presented. Most of all, he exposes your youth--your own youthful pretensions, and stupidity, and wisdom. It's the account you would write if you had the time... And the insight.

A delightful memoir of post-war Greenwich Village.......2001-10-29

One brilliantly sunny day in July, I decided to head out to the lake to bask in the sun and read. Unforuntately, I realized halfway there that I hadn't bought anything to read. So, I trotted over to my local used bookstore and began browsing their recent acquisition table. This little volume immediately gained my attention. It looked like fun, it looked like it would be a quick read, and it was short enough that it wouldn't keep me from continuing in any of the other books that I was already reading. So, off to the lake with this book in hand I went.

KAFKA WAS THE RAGE was quite a nifty little read. I had read a fair amount about the Beats at one point, so this had some of the same post-WW II Manhattan atmosphere, but that was set more in the area of Columbia University, so this shifted the scene further south. There is no real story to tell here. Broyard merely recounts in a more or less anecdotal form a number of events and individuals from a particular moment in time. He has a gift for summoning up particular moments in vivid detail, and a talent for the brilliant line. An example of the former is his recounting of an adventure in which he took Delmore Schwartz, Clement Greenberg, and Dwight MacDonald to a Spanish Harlem nightclub. Another is his description of his art professor Meyer Schapiro.

Some great lines:

"I thought that being a Communist was a penalty you had to pay for being interested in politics."

[on Dylan Thomas] "To him, an American party was like being in a bad pub with the wrong people."

[on Delmore Schwartz] "Like Samuel Johnson, whom he resembled in many ways, Delmore was not interested in prospects, views, or landscape. He had looked at the city when he was young, and saw no need to do it again."

[on a painter friend] "His voice was soft, deep, and cultivated and his manners were a history of civilization."

As one might expect (and hope for) in a memoir set in such a vibrant era, the book is marvelous for its incessant name-dropping of famous individuals who pop up briefly as characters: figures as diverse as Erich Fromm, Maya Deren, Anais Nin, Caitlin and Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Gregory Bateson, as well as the previously mentioned Schwartz, Greenberg, MacDonald, and Shapiro.

Exploring art and sex in post-war New York.......2001-04-03

The time for intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals to thrive was definitely in the late 1940's when barriers were falling and culture and mindscape were being reinvented by abstract painters, psychoanalysis, and changing attitudes about sexual freedom. Anatole Broyard writes about New York in 1947 from his perspective, as a World War II veteran coming home to new ideas and strange people. His vision is romantic and nostalgic, but he also recognizes the limitations of these times and his own feeling of being an outsider among outsiders. Being so immersed in the intellectual and sexual experiences of life, he longs for a more personal, emotional bond which he fails to find. Though Broyard could not finish the book before his death, it is still very much a worthwhile read if you love books, sex, and the excitement of cities.

Out of Sheer Rage : Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

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Out of Sheer Rage
Don't procrastinate--read this!
The literature of anxiety, fretting, and complaint
Fabulous!

Out of Sheer Rage : Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Geoff Dyer
Manufacturer: North Point Pr
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence is the best book about not writing a book about D.H Lawrence ever written. Other people have written untraditional, even loopy tributes to the priest of love before--including boon companions Anais Nin and Henry Miller--but no one has done it with Dyer's chutzpah, or with such fantastic success.

Dyer started out with the intention of writing either a sober academic study of Lawrence or a novel based on his subject's life but couldn't seem to do either. The academic study, he realized, was really just an excuse to read Lawrence's work, and the novel never even acquired a rudimentary shape in his mind. Instead, he somehow convinced his publisher to pick up the tab for his lengthy globetrotting pilgrimage, which took him from Paris to Rome to Greece to Oxford--not to mention such Lawrentian hotspots as Taos and Mexico and San Francisco. The result is an extended, often hilarious, meditation on seafood, English TV, Dyer's own creative impulses, and occasionally even Lawrence.

In Lawrence's seminal prose he finds some justification for his own capricious indulgences: "What Lawrence's life demonstrates so powerfully is that it actually takes a daily effort to be free.... There are intervals of repose but there will never come a state of definitive rest where you can give up because you have turned freedom into a permanent condition. Freedom is always precarious." Yet he refuses to read Lawrence's novels, confining himself to letters, travel reportage, and other casuals. Indeed, "[o]ne gets so weary watching authors' sensations and thoughts get novelised, set into the concrete of fiction, that perhaps it is best to avoid the novel as a medium of expression."

Dyer's fascination with Lawrence's minorabilia suggests not only an oblique criticism of the contemporary novel, but a promising direction for the memoir. Perhaps clean, well-lighted subjectivity is a dead end, and the future lies with eccentric, provisional works along the lines of Flaubert's Parrot and How Proust Can Change Your Life--or Out of Sheer Rage. After all, Dyer's bright (and brilliantly shambolic) book of life reminds us of why we read in the first place: to see the surprising ways one person can be brought to life by another. --Michael Joseph Gross

The Spectator, William Boyd

I powered through Geoff Dyer's book about his inability to write a book about D.H. Lawrence, Out of Sheer Rage. Funny and self-laceratingly candid but with a nice Nabokovian spin on the fatal and irresistible allure of procrastination.

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Fasten your seatbelt- you're off to a splendid reading!.......2007-09-06

Read this book after Joyce Carol Oates mentioned it on CSPAN as a hilarious memoir. Hadn't read anything funnier in years and have been recommending the book since! Coincidentally, the June 4, 2007 issue of New York Magazine has an article titled, "The Best Novels You've Never Read - Sixty-one Critics Reveal Their Favorite Underrated Book of the Past Ten Years" and Out of Sheer Rage is mentioned. I couldn't agree more!

Out of Sheer Rage.......2006-02-17

It is actually disturbing to think that I might have lived my entire life without knowing about Dyer and this book had not a friend recommended it to me. Dyer's memoir/rumination/travelogue/indictment/paean is one of the most brilliant, original and engaging books I've ever read. I'm amazed that it is so little known.

Don't procrastinate--read this!.......2006-02-07

This is a funny, brilliantly written book about not being able to get on with writing a study of D.H.Lawrence. If you're a writer too you will groan and wince with recognition (unless you're a model of Trollopean industry)--though you're unlikely to take writerly procrastination to Dyer's wild extremes. The book is endlessly self-referential and yet--in spite of this or because of it?-- is interesting, compelling, compulsively readable, and laugh-out-loud funny. How does he get away with it? Well, it's not just about Dyer, but also about many many other things that he sees and experiences and reads as he travels the world with Laurentian rootlessness in the company of the longsuffering Laura (one's heart goes out to her). And it's about how to live; and how not to live; about hope, and despair. And much more; while also conveying a vivid sense of what DHL might have been like as a person, so the study of DHL is finally achieved in the end.
Is it memoir? literary biography? Travelogue? it's all of these and more.
In the end the pleasure of a book like this can't be conveyed in a review, because the brilliance of the book is in the writing.

The literature of anxiety, fretting, and complaint.......2005-09-17

Geoff Dyer's study of D.H. Lawrence was conceived as a distraction. Dyer wanted to read Lawrence with a purpose. Preparation postponed the task. The Lawrence project was supposed to take him out of himself. Lawrence wasn't too keen on islands and Geoff Dyer isn't either. Dyer and Rilke both had difficulty doing nothing but work. To Dyer it seemed that making a start on the Lawrence book seemed more boring than doing nothing. After a moped accident and on the mend Dyer began to believe again in his Lawrence project.

Huxley noted that Lawrence had a great responsiveness to the world. Dyer looked at pictures of Lawrence he had collected. The closer Lawrence came to dying, the more he looked like D.H. Lawrence. Dyer and his friend, Laura, traveled to Sicily, one of those touchy respect cultures. Geoff and Laura went to Villa Fontana Vecchia. There was a plaque. Dyer had driven to Eastwood. According to Lawrence the workers hungered for beauty. For Rilke the real work was to organize his existence, but not so for someone like John Updike who began his productive writing life early. Lawrence was untroubled by this sort of thing. His mature work was based upon his relationship with Frieda. Lawrence had found a home within himself as had Rodin.

Reading Lawrence's letters was a perfect excuse for not writing the book. 'The Ship of Death' was written in autumn, 1929. The first intimation, though, came in 1913 in a letter to Edward Garnett. What we want years later is a Lawrence in the midst of his sensations. SEA AND SARDINIA has a note-like immediacy. The essence of Lawrence's writing and life moves in the opposite direction of achieving serenity. Lawrence wanted to turn his emotions into a philosophy. He shows it takes a daily effort to be free. For the writer work means the suspension of life.

This postmodern treatment of Lawrence and the act of writing about him is very good.

Fabulous!.......2005-01-13

This was simply the most entertaining book I have read in many a year! You should read it in private. Reading it in public, your uncontrollable laughter may cause you significant embarassment.

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Home on the Rage
Karen Strait Nesbit
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1591294029

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A heartfelt narrative of a child struggling and strangling in a house of emotionally vacant and writhen parents. Young Katherine's (Corky's) mother and stepfather are overwhelmed and over the edge by their fill of parental duties for their hoard of kids, and make life unbearable for all who reside in their home. Corky exudes a strong voice and persists at life as she searches her neighborhood for another place to safely thrive. She is determined to go on and eager to find a home where she can go about the business of growing up without worrying about threats on her life from within her explosive home.

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Out of Sheer Rage
Geoff Dyer
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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Binding: Hardcover

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Bizarre allegations arise in air-rage case; Man accused of trashing rented home in Las Vegas.(City): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press

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Bizarre allegations arise in air-rage case; Man accused of trashing rented home in Las Vegas.(City): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
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ASIN: B000URWXPS
Release Date: 2007-08-04

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the spoken truth
Even The Stars Look Lonesome
Maya Angelou's Voice Is One To Be Embraced
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Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Maya Angelou
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Download

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The audio version of Even the Stars Look Lonesome, a collection of unabridged essays read by Maya Angelou, plays as if you are spending an evening with the author herself. You'll feel as if, by some stroke of luck, Angelou had settled down for a pleasant chat over dinner and a glass of wine, telling stories about her family and sharing her powerfully stated opinions about the African American experience, sex versus sensuality, and the ins and outs of growing old. Her reading is lively and intelligent, her words at once lyrical and powerful, blurring the line between memoir and poetry. Don't be surprised if you find yourself repeatedly hitting rewind, just to savor again Angelou's wonderful word play and mighty matriarch's voice. (Running Time: 90 minutes)

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1 cassette / 90 minutes
Read by the Author, Maya Angelou

"[Maya Angelou has] a glorious bell of a voice." --Dayton Daily News

This wise book is the wonderful continuation of the bestselling Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now.

Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her unique, spellbinding way, she re-creates intimate personal experiences and gives us her wisdom on a wide variety of subjects. She tells us how a house can both hurt its occupants and heal them. She talks about Africa. She gives us a profile of Oprah. She enlightens us about age and sexuality. She confesses to the problems fame brings and shares with us the indelible lessons she has learned about rage and violence. And she sings the praises of sensuality.

Even the Stars Look Lonesome imparts the lessons of a lifetime.

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Read this!.......2004-03-13

it talks about essays of aspects in life and what kind of journey that people are planning to have in their experiences and I think its a very interesting book
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the spoken truth.......2002-10-31

maya angelou's even the stars look lonesome is an outburst to the african american society. it gives so much hope. her words express a lyrical emotion. her usage of intelligent voice structure titilates the mind.

Even The Stars Look Lonesome.......2001-10-18

The deep and compelling thoughts of life and how to endear every emotion, experience, and disappointment that comes with growing older day by day, were wonderfully displayed in Maya Angelou's Even the Stars Look Lonesome. This book was an intelligent continuation of her best selling book Wouldn't Take Anything from my Journey Now. Taking life one day at a time, and learning from each experience is what this book is all about. The recreating of each memorable happening from love and intimacy to rage and violence, not discounting her remarkable outlook on age, fame, and perhaps the most impotent, the comfort and security you find in a home and a family. The experiences would relate more to elder women looking for advice and insight on common life issues.
In this novel, Maya Angelou has combined a wonderful collection of life experiences that have formed and made her the person she is today. Each chapter reflects an important stepping-stone of her life. The book consists of twenty chapters that are mumbled together and yet stayed in order of the way they took place.
The plot is always changing each chapter is like a different book. Towards the beginning of the novel, love and divorce where the experience of choice and she soon moves in to her times in Africa, and how challenging it is to be an African American Women earning her well deserved respect. Maya Angelou's novel also voices her opinion on age, denial, and anger to an older age group of African American women, using emotionally over powering stories. The chapters are short and moderately easy to get through, if you're good at combing facts and clues to complete the final picture.
Coming to a conclusion of the eye opening novel Even the Star Look Lonesome we feel as though the experiences displayed in this book would better relate to women between the ages of 20 and 80. The reason for that relation is due to the fact not many people have experienced the things talked about until theses ages have been reached. Also the group felt the book was directed towards African Americans and the troubles that race encounters.

Maya Angelou's Voice Is One To Be Embraced.......2000-12-14

When Maya Angelou was a young woman -- "in the crisp days of my youth," she says -- she carried with her a secret conviction that she wouldn't live past the age of 28. Raped by her mother's boyfriend at 8 and a mother herself since she graduated from high school, she supported herself and her son, Guy, through a series of careers and buoyed by an implacable ambition to escape what might have been a half-lived, ground-down life of poverty and despair. "For it is hateful to be young, bright, ambitious and poor," Angelou observes. "The added insult is to be aware of one's poverty." In "Even the Stars Look Lonesome," a collection of reflective autobiographical essays, Angelou gives no further explanation for her "profound belief" that she would die young.

"I was thirty-six before I realized that I had lived years beyond my deadline and needed to revise my thinking about an early death," she recalls. "With that realization life waxed sweeter. Old acquaintances became friendships, and new clever acquaintances showed themselves more interesting. Old loves burdened with memories of disappointments and betrayals packed up and left town, leaving no forwarding address, and new loves came calling."

Angelou, looking at tailights of her 20's, is the nearest thing America has to a sacred institution, a high priestess of culture and love in the tradition of such distaff luminaries (all of them, hitherto, white) as Isadora Duncan and Pearl S. Buck, with a bit of Eleanor Roosevelt and Aimée Semple MacPherson thrown into the mix.

"She was born poor and powerless in a land where/power is money and money is adored," the poet Angelou writes in tribute to another astonishing black woman of our time, Oprah Winfrey. "Born black in a land where might is white/and white is adored./Born female in a land where decisions are masculine/and masculinity controls." Angelou's lifelong effort to escape and expose the "national, racial and historical hallucinations" that have burdened black women in America and replace them with a shining exemplar of power, achievement and generosity of spirit is as miraculous as she says it is, even if one suspects that in "real life" Angelou must be a little hard to take.

"I would have my ears filled with the world's music," she writes, "the grunts of hewers of wood, the cackle of old folks sitting in the last sunlight and the whir of busy bees in the early morning ... All sounds of life and living, death and dying are welcome to my ears." At times Angelou seems more like a blast from Olympus than a woman of flesh and blood.

Reading these essays, I found myself longing somewhat guiltily for evidence of smallness on her part, of pettiness, even -- some sign that even an icon as monumental as she is might occasionally allow herself an irritated moment, a lapse into cynicism, or humor that wasn't so resolutely seasoned and wise.

On the other hand, smallness isn't what Maya Angelou stands for. Ordinary is not what she does. Only a cynic, a smaller mind than Angelou's, could fail to welcome the gifts she offers.

Awesome.......1999-12-17

What a Voice! What an inspiration, and great enunciation. The Lady is her usual awesome self in this wise and eloquent sharing of some of her more intimate life experiences. It's impossible to adequately praise Angelou's ability to speak to the heart and soul, whether through her written work or recorded truth. You'll listen to this over and over again, and will be renewed, and renewed. Enjoy!

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