Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old
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Deeply thoughtful, wry, and resilient, this fascinating and absorbing book about growing older is a literate andlife-enhancing look at what all of us if we are lucky can aspire to""I like being old at least as much as I liked being middle aged and a good deal more than I liked being young." "Like Diana Athill's "Somewhere Towards the End," this series of perceptive and warm-heartedessays is an incisive look at aging. Jane Millerdips back and fortheasily between the personal and the literary, discussing the deep sustainingjoys offriendship; the treatment of old age in literature fromTolstoy toUpdike, Wharton tode Beauvoir; the loss of interest in such once-central preoccupation asfashion and sex; physical ailments; and exactly how age changes others' perceptions of one, including within one's own family. This reflective, intimate memoir beautifully examines and rethinkswhat it means to be old in a culture which prides youth and views old age as a slow decline towards the end of life."
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1844086496
ISBN13:9781844086498
Release Date:February 2012
Publisher:Virago Press (UK)
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
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