Ready to Retire? : The New Reality of Retirement and What You and Your Spouse Need to Know / Lyndsay Green.

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Cultural messaging has traditionally reinforced the idea of the man as breadwinner and thusly, men of this generation have a particularly hard time making the retirement adjustment as they so often completely self-identify with their work. In light of this cultural trend, bestselling author and sociologist Lyndsay Green sets out to demystify retirement for men and their partners, and provides an engaging and uplifting portrait of the emotional landscape of men in their sixties and seventies. While most books on this subject focus on finances, Green writes more about the psychological implications of retirement. More descriptive than instructional, the book is based on interviews with over sixty people, from age 56 to 88, living in cities, small towns and rural areas. This is an inspiring portrait of the emotional lives of men who are retired or are considering retirement, and the women (and men) they live with. Print run 17,500.