Aging
Disgracefully by Danny Cahill
Release
Date:
May 2, 2017
Publisher: Greenleaf
Book Group
Genre: Biography
& Memoir
Synopsis
Does it count as a midlife crisis if you screw up
your life and you happen to be entering middle age, or did you screw up your
life because you are entering middle age?
And does it matter if you take the kind of life most people envy—wealth and success and recognition—and blow it up, hurting everyone you love along the way? Who does that?!
And does it matter if you take the kind of life most people envy—wealth and success and recognition—and blow it up, hurting everyone you love along the way? Who does that?!
Danny Cahill had made it, by any measure: He was a
recruiting industry icon with a brilliant, lucrative career, hugely in demand
as a motivational speaker, and a noted playwright and writer. But once a
serious gym injury began to unravel his childhood deprivations, his mother’s
shame-based modus operandi, and the choices he made in search of love, he
realized he had thrown it all away in spectacular fashion.
In Aging Disgracefully, Cahill
takes on the emotionally tricky territory of memoir and charges into deep water
to tell a frequently humorous and wonderfully dark tale that spares no one in
his life, least of all himself.
Painfully authentic and unapologetic, Cahill’s
account reveals that no matter how the world rewards you for being at the top
of your game, an unresolved past can follow you, shape your choices, and lead
to comic and tragic results when lines are crossed.
Cahill’s story is ultimately about climbing out of
messes, saving ourselves from ourselves, finding exactly what we’ve been
looking for, and realizing that it was there all along.
My
Thought’s:
Wow! I’m at a
loss of words. Cahill’s memoir is probably one of the best that I’ve read this
year. How he describes his love, guilt and fear brought me right into the pages
of his story and I just couldn’t put it down. I read his book in the span of
one day.
Cahill goes
into his childhood and begins to explain his painful experiences of falling in
and out of love. It’ll make you laugh and cry all the way to the very end. Without
giving to much away I’m going to end it there, but I highly recommend Cahill’s “Aging
Disgracefully” and it receives five stars from me!
Biography
Danny Cahill started his career at the headhunting firm Hobson
Associates straight out of college. He was its rookie of the year and
subsequently its youngest top producer and its youngest manager. At
twenty-seven, he bought the company and built it into one of the country's largest
privately held search firms. His success led to a speaking career that
culminated in being awarded the recruiting industry's first (Knutson)
''Lifetime Achievement Award.''In his other life as a playwright, his works have been produced off-Broadway and he has won the Maxwell Anderson, Emerging Playwright, and CAB theatre awards. His first book, Harper's Rules, won an Axiom award.
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