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  <title><![CDATA[Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties]]></title>
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  <default_description>First published in 1973, when its author was nineteen years old, &lt;I&gt;Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties&lt;/I&gt; has become a classic to many of the baby boom generation, for its sharply observed account of coming of age during turbulent times. Now used in many high school English and social studies courses, this new edition is being brought out to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of the original, not only for those of Maynard s generation, but to make available, to the current generation of young readers in particular, a work that may inspire them to give shape to their experiences of growing up, and as a reminder that a person is never too young to tell his or her own story.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1972, an eighteen-year-old girl from New Hampshire wrote an essay for the New York Times, entitled “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life”.  Within days of the article’s publication, many letters came pouring in – requests for other articles, offers to go on television, and offers to me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30252296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think she looks back and cringes a bit on this, but this essentially long essay was assigned in freshman english when I was in college and has stayed with me. It both gave me hope and filled me with despair. Maynard is so clear and precise and elegant and simple in her prose that she sets a high b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35662814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book shortly after graduating high school. I thought to myself &quot;She could  have been me!&quot; The feelings and emotions expressed in this book capture the mood of a generation]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was sixteen and thought it was quite daring for Joyce Maynard to write a memoir at age nineteen. It's not great, but certainly interesting to hear a very young adult look back on her life thus far.]]></body>
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