{"product_id":"boomer-at-midlife-mark-cain-9780595411863","title":"Boomer at Midlife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bold and bittersweet, a tragedy wrapped in a comedy. You can read it and laugh, or weep, but always with the shock of recognition.\" -\u003cb\u003eLandon Y. Jones\u003c\/b\u003e, best-selling author and National Book Award nominee for\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalter \"Boomer\" Stapleton has good reason to believe that he is the ultimate stereotype: divorced, middle-aged, tired of his job, involved with a much younger woman, and soon to lose his only child to college. He is a Baby Boomer, one of an anonymous seventy-seven million Americans at or approaching midlife. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith his fiftieth birthday just around the corner, Boomer is finished being a poster child for his generation and determined to forge a new path despite his progressively shrinking set of life options. He quits his job and leaves friends and family behind to move to New Orleans to play zydeco on his accordion. But what he encounters in The Big Easy leads him even deeper into the realm of uncertainty about who he is and where he really belongs. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the halls of corporate America to the sidewalks and clubs of New Orleans, \u003ci\u003eBoomer at Midlife\u003c\/i\u003e lampoons the self-conscious Baby Boomers in a story that is at once comic, nostalgic, and melancholy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Cain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 059541186X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595411863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Mark Cain","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48871615660287,"sku":"9780595411863","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boomer-at-midlife-mark-cain-9780595411863","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}