MIDLIFEMAN – A BOOK FOR GUYS

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2001, 1^st paperback pr.  ISBN 0-7710-9590-2.  Trade soft cover, 230 pages including Acknowledgements.  Unread remaindered copy with very light edge and cover wear; pages lightly tanning.  ‘Midlifeman is a man in his forties.  Any man in his forties.  Maybe even in his fifties.  He’s not yet over the hill, but he’s definitely climbing the steep, last part of the incline.  No longer quite as nimble as Superman, Midlifeman is still agile enough to be a son, a father, a husband, a lover, a friend – frequently all at the same time.  And he is more self aware than he’s ever been before. … he’s also just met his mortality, and it’s jolted him.  If he’s going to achieve something with his life, he’s got to do it now.  Tomorrow may be too late.  Larry Krotz knows this.  He’s a Midlifeman himself, and he has a keen eye for both the trivial and the tough issues that men of the boomer generation are now facing.’ (from rear wrap)