'“Avery Corman has a literary gift for dialogue and predicament. Sealed in a time capsule, 50 could tell future generations more about contemporary middle-aged mores than a library of sociological theses.” —Time “[I]t is a tribute to Mr. Corman’s skill that it is only in the last few pages that we become entirely aware we are reading and not actually watching the life of someone we have come to care about deeply.” —The New York Times'