{"product_id":"a-view-from-lifes-edge-corinne-g-dempsey-9781978844643","title":"A View from Life's Edge: Discovering What Really Matters with Older Women Across the Globe","description":"In today's death-denying, success-driven society, older women's countercultural voices call for our attention. Recounting emotionally charged conversations from across the world, \u003ci\u003eA View from Life's Edge \u003c\/i\u003ereflects on women's comfort with impending death, gratitude forged by catastrophe, and humility that makes way for wonder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Speaking with nearly one hundred women over the age of eighty in four locations--northern Iceland, south India, a retirement community in California, and a convent in upstate New York--Corinne G. Dempsey finds that, as we near life's end, we gain clarity about what really matters in life. Women's stories and reflections, in which sorrow and loss are central to a life well lived, help to expand our sense of what it means to be human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on the paradoxical wisdom of world religions and mystical traditions to frame late-life tendencies across cultures, Dempsey portrays these accounts as a corrective to mainstream values that defeat and diminish us. Dempsey encourages us to turn away from ageist fears rather than denying life's inevitable end. Learning from older women's perspectives, we might move their edge-of-life views closer to the center.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Corinne G. Dempsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978844646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978844643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Corinne G. Dempsey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47087723053311,"sku":"9781978844643","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8e91e58-4f2d-49c6-8a6e-a7be9f8b3791.jpg?v=1753850607","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-view-from-lifes-edge-corinne-g-dempsey-9781978844643","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}