Life has a tendency to throw up big questions at us. What is life all about? How did I get here? Where did my 30s and 40s go? Asking questions is a good thing, but where do we go for the answers? In this very entertaining book Al Stewart not only talks about the problems facing men today, he offers solutions.
Now out of print but this is a Christian guide to mid-life for men, talking about what mid-life pressures look like and how the book of Ecclesiastes can speak to that.
I'm 44 and I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily "living a life of quiet desperation" but I definitely am aware of the feeling of not being in the early stages of life at the moment and thinking through what that means for the future.