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REACTIONS & REVIEWS
CHRISTIAN
CENTURY magazine, April 12, 2000
MONEY
magazine, July 2000
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Detailing the practicalities of retiring as well
as the range of emotions
brought forth by the process of separating from the university environment,
Klaus' book, with its insight, candor, and rare command of the journal
form, will pique the interest of anyone contemplating the possibility
of
retiring. It ought to be required reading for those readers who
know
retirement is looming on the not-too-distant horizon.
--BOOKLIST
Carl Klaus has done it again--in Taking Retirement he conducts
us through a bittersweet life passage with the pitch-perfect voice of his
acclaimed garden books.... Here, in the modest and appealing form
of a journal, is a novel of acceptance and new life, a memoir of a great
teacher, and memorable travel writing of a thrilling journey West....
Klaus has made of his story a touchstone for this most beguiling--
and bedeviling--of life's changes.
--Patricia Hampl, author of I Could Tell You Stories
"Carl Klaus leads us through a rite of passage for which we have few
guides--the laying down of the work that has defined one's life, the
shedding of an old skin, and the shaping of a fresh identity. The path
he shows us cuts through swamps of discouragement and thickets
of fear before it reaches the clearing where his new life will blossom.
This journal records his emotions along the way as faithfully as
any seismograph gauging the tremors of earth."
--Scott Russell Sanders, author of Hunting For Hope and Staying Put
"Taking Retirement is the quiet testimony of a man whose ongoing
writing, editing, reading, gardening, traveling and ceaseless quest for
self-knowledge make him much less retired than many people half his age.
And in that lie some good lessons, both about writing and retirement."
--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost
"An evocative meditation on purpose, dependence, leisure,
and fulfillment. Occasionally wistful, always insightful, Carl Klaus
will charm you with his musings about the meaning of work and his
honesty about the natural ambivalence that accompanies this lifetransition."
--Hope Edelman, author of
Mother of My Mother: The Intricate Bond Between the Generations
"A life-altering condition is faithfully chronicled in this story of a
condition that is new to humanity."
--Kirkus Reviews |
