Small Comforts

Essays at Middle Age

Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Small Comforts by Jeffrey Hammond, The Kent State University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Jeffrey Hammond ISBN: 9781612775968
Publisher: The Kent State University Press Publication: July 15, 2008
Imprint: The Kent State University Press Language: English
Author: Jeffrey Hammond
ISBN: 9781612775968
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Publication: July 15, 2008
Imprint: The Kent State University Press
Language: English

A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older

“With its brutal honesty, self-deprecating humor, and hard-earned insights, Jeffrey Hammond’s Small Comforts is a stunning personal journey that begins with childhood dreams and adolescent fantasies and culminates in career anxieties and the inevitable midlife crisis. Small Comforts is a portrait of the artist who is no longer a young man and now must find the courage to face what he has created and what he has failed to create in the smithy of his soul." —Richard “Pete” Peterson

Small Comforts quietly probes the mysteries of an ordinary life when reviewed at middle age. Essayist Jeff Hammond, a midcareer academic who examines a variety of lifelong obsessions, frustrates any expectation that life’s fogs dissipate as we age. At stake here is the need for those of us who have reached a “certain age” to look at who we have become with courage, honesty, and humor.

Beneath the discoveries of a sometimes bewildered narrator lurks that strange sense of liberation that can brighten the process of getting older. Hammond’s diverse musings on time and its effects will prompt an oddly calming discovery that many problems usually identified as “midlife” issues have actually been with us since childhood.

In the narrator’s seriocomic self-effacement, Small Comforts embodies midlife retrospection with humor and tender nostalgia and is certain to appeal to the ever-growing middle-aged population.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older

“With its brutal honesty, self-deprecating humor, and hard-earned insights, Jeffrey Hammond’s Small Comforts is a stunning personal journey that begins with childhood dreams and adolescent fantasies and culminates in career anxieties and the inevitable midlife crisis. Small Comforts is a portrait of the artist who is no longer a young man and now must find the courage to face what he has created and what he has failed to create in the smithy of his soul." —Richard “Pete” Peterson

Small Comforts quietly probes the mysteries of an ordinary life when reviewed at middle age. Essayist Jeff Hammond, a midcareer academic who examines a variety of lifelong obsessions, frustrates any expectation that life’s fogs dissipate as we age. At stake here is the need for those of us who have reached a “certain age” to look at who we have become with courage, honesty, and humor.

Beneath the discoveries of a sometimes bewildered narrator lurks that strange sense of liberation that can brighten the process of getting older. Hammond’s diverse musings on time and its effects will prompt an oddly calming discovery that many problems usually identified as “midlife” issues have actually been with us since childhood.

In the narrator’s seriocomic self-effacement, Small Comforts embodies midlife retrospection with humor and tender nostalgia and is certain to appeal to the ever-growing middle-aged population.

More books from The Kent State University Press

Cover of the book The Cincinnati Reds by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Already the World by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book The Sage of Tawawa by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Phantoms of the South Fork by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Lost Ohio by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book My Greatest Quarrel with Fortune by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Conundrums for the Long Week-End by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book The Lonely-Wilds by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Outlaws of the Purple Cow and Other Stories by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Sounding the Whale by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book A Passion for The Land by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Kilroy Was There by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Meade's Army by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Blue-Blooded Cavalryman by Jeffrey Hammond
Cover of the book Blood and Ink by Jeffrey Hammond
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy