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| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| A Note on Sources | xi | |
| Introduction: The Poignancy and Poetry of the Everyday | 1 | |
| A First Cup: At the Firehouse | 31 | |
| 1 | The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement: Ritual and Support at the End of Work | 43 |
| A Second Cup: Life is What Happens | 58 | |
| 2 | Zen Masters and Master Planners: How People Prepare For Later Life | 66 |
| A Third Cup: How Do You Catalog This? | 85 | |
| 3 | At Work, at Home, at Large: The Sense of Person and Place | 91 |
| A Fourth Cup: Behind the Mirror | 108 | |
| 4 | Looking for the Light: The Search for Passion and Purpose in Maturity | 116 |
| A Fifth Cup: Around the Lake | 153 | |
| 5 | The Kaleidoscope and the Conspirators: Kinship, Friendship, and Meaning among Elders | 160 |
| A Sixth Cup: The Incompleat Fatalist | 193 | |
| 6 | Death and Taxes: Dealing with Health, Finances, and Fate in Retirement | 203 |
| 7 | Conclusions: Lessons and Cautions | 237 |
| A Final Cup: The Broken Watch | 246 | |
| Appendix | 251 | |
| Notes | 253 | |
| References | 265 | |
| Index | 279 |
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James Marnie
reviewed Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America on February 14, 2008 Breaking the Watch
This is a grand book. The explanation for why there's a "down" fills more pages than the details of the "upside," but at this point, I think that's still a necessary evil.
I have interviewed the author twice for the C-Realm Podcast, once before reading the book and once after. You can find those interviews here:
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