| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780393067705 | | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | | Publish Date: 1/4/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 208067429 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.75H x 6L x 1T | | Pages: 192 |
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| | | One of the great editors in British publishing reflects candidly and with great humor on the condition of being old--the triumphs and tragedies, as well as the wisdom and fortitude required to face death.
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Growing old is difficult, but rather than accept this platitude, Diana Athill, a British memoirist in her 90s, reflects on the process with detail and frankness. She faces the least salient facts straight on--boredom, loss of libido, the growing burden of the aging body. Nevertheless, levity and even humor illuminate her work, and she finds enjoyment in things as simple and significant as driving a car, gardening, and--most of all--developing into an assured and charismatic writer. While idyllic illusions are not coddled here, there is much charm and wisdom to savor in SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END.
| Praise| "The achievement of Athill's work is its refusal to reduce the specificities of her captivating life to homilies about wisdom." 02/23/2009 |
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