{"id":324,"date":"2009-01-10T23:17:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T03:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/10\/review-of-in-the-ever-after-by-allan-b-chinen\/"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T23:45:12","slug":"review-of-in-the-ever-after-by-allan-b-chinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Review of In the Ever After, by Allan B. Chinen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the Ever After<\/em><\/p>\n

Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Life<\/em><\/p>\n

by Allan B. Chinen<\/p>\n

Chiron Publications, Wilmette, Illinois, 1994.\u00a0 203 pages.<\/p>\n

I love Allan Chinen’s collections of fairy tales.\u00a0 This volume deals with tales from all over the world that involve “elders” rather than the youthful protagonist going off to seek his fortune.<\/p>\n

After presenting\u00a0each fairy tale, he speaks as a psychiatrist about the insights the fairy tale gives us and the light it sheds on living the second half of life.<\/p>\n

Fairy tales are full of wisdom.\u00a0 Allan Chinen helps you see how that wisdom can apply to your life.\u00a0 This is perfect for people like me who love symbols and images.\u00a0 It’s fascinating how the same concepts come up in fairy tales from completely different parts of the world.<\/p>\n

“In most familiar fairy tales, the Prince and Princess battle against terrible enemies and survive overwhelming ordeals.\u00a0 Then they meet each other, marry, and live happily ever after.\u00a0 And surely true love and finding one’s own kingdom represent symbolic goals for all individuals.\u00a0 But much more remains of life in the “ever after,” and perhaps the most important:\u00a0 restoring innocence and wonder to a world that has forgotten them.\u00a0 That is the ultimate promise of elder tales, and their challenge — infusing the magic of myth and childhood into real life.”<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on the main site at: www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/in_the_ever_after.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Ever After Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Life by Allan B. Chinen Chiron Publications, Wilmette, Illinois, 1994.\u00a0 203 pages. I love Allan Chinen’s collections of fairy tales.\u00a0 This volume deals with tales from all over the world that involve “elders” rather than the youthful protagonist going off to seek his fortune. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folk-tales","category-nonfiction-review","category-personal-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}