Composing a Life is a non-fiction book written in the first-person narrative by Mary Catherine Bateson. In this book, Ms. Bateson takes an artistic approach to achievement. She looks closely at the lives of four of her successful friends and her own life and finds commonalities in how they all have composed very successful lives in spite of numerous discontinuities along the way. · Mary Catherine Bateson’s writing on “Composing a Life Story” describes many aspects of reflecting on one’s accomplishments and life path, and stresses the importance of embracing the random, unexpected nature of life. Overall she states that life is full of confusion and “interruptions”—losing jobs, moving for different reasons, finding one’s true www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Leave a Reply Want to join the discussion? Feel free to contribute! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *.
Composing a Life. by. Mary Catherine Bateson. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. Mary Catherine Bateson has been called one of the most original and important thinkers of our time (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Bateson's deeply satisfying treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women. Title: Composing a Life. Publisher: Plume. Publication Date: Binding: Paperback. Book Condition: VERY GOOD. About this title. Synopsis: This extraordinary book explores that act of creation that engages us all--the composition of our lives. Through the comparative biographies of herself and four of her close friends, Mary Catherine. In her pioneering work Composing a Life (), Mary Catherine Bateson outlined "life as an improvisatory art" using the experiences of five women, including herself, to illustrate that sometimes breakdowns can lead to breakthroughs. People are living longer and staying active in the United States, so much so that Bateson identifies a new stage of life she calls Adulthood II.
From the Washington Post: In “Composing a Life,” Dr. Bateson described how she and four other women managed to organize their lives amid conflicting social, professional and familial demands. She disliked the term “juggling” to describe the multiple responsibilities placed on women, saying in , “If I try to juggle, I will drop something: my job, my child, my husband, my community.”. Leave a Reply Want to join the discussion? Feel free to contribute! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Choose items to buy together. This item: Composing a Life. by Mary Catherine Bateson Paperback. $ In Stock. Ships from and sold by www.doorway.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom. by Mary Catherine Bateson Paperback.
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