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Sixty : a diary of my sixty...
This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men. As Ian Brown's sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. True, he was beginning to notice memory lapses, creaking knees, and a certain social invisibility--and yet, it troubled him that many people think of sixty as "old," because he rarely felt older than at forty. An award-winning writer, Brown instead chose to notice every moment, try to understand it, capture it ... all without panicking. Sixty is the result: Brown's uncensored account of his sixty-first year, and, informed by his reportorial gifts, his investigation of the many changes--physical, mental, and emotional--that come to all of us as we age. Brown is a master of the seriocomic, and his day-to-day dramas--as a husband, father, brother, son, friend, and neighbor--are rendered, inseparably, with wistfulness and laugh-out-loud wit. He is also a discerning, prolific reader, and it is a pure pleasure being privy to his thoughts on the dozens of writers--including Virginia Woolf, Philip Larkin, A.J. Liebling, Wisawa Szymborska, Clive James, Sharon Olds, and Karl Ove Knausgaard--who speak to him most, at sixty. From an author on whom the telling detail is never lost, Sixty is a richly informative, candid report from the line between middle-aged and soon-to-be-elderly. It perfectly captures the obsessions of a generation realizing that they are no longer young
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monografia Rebiun37879148 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37879148 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 160827s2016 nyu o 000 0aeng d 957605708 9781615193516 electronic bk.) 1615193510 electronic bk.) 9781615193509 1615193502 E73E9EBF-5D63-4A7E-8BC8-7FEDDC67F0A9 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com EBLCP eng pn EBLCP TEFOD YDX EBLCP TEFOD OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ TXLAP IDEBK OCLCQ UOK SDG OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCA OCLCQ OCLCO OCL OCLCO INARC OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL n-cn--- 305.244/1 23 Brown, Ian 1954-) author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqQvgq4qvbPKMy9fcBkjC Sixty a diary of my sixty-first year : the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? Ian Brown New York The Experiment 2016 New York New York The Experiment 2016 1 online resource (324 pages) 1 online resource (324 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; SIXTY; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October; November; December; January; February; Acknowledgments; Permissions Acknowledgments; About the Author; Back cover This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men. As Ian Brown's sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. True, he was beginning to notice memory lapses, creaking knees, and a certain social invisibility--and yet, it troubled him that many people think of sixty as "old," because he rarely felt older than at forty. An award-winning writer, Brown instead chose to notice every moment, try to understand it, capture it ... all without panicking. Sixty is the result: Brown's uncensored account of his sixty-first year, and, informed by his reportorial gifts, his investigation of the many changes--physical, mental, and emotional--that come to all of us as we age. Brown is a master of the seriocomic, and his day-to-day dramas--as a husband, father, brother, son, friend, and neighbor--are rendered, inseparably, with wistfulness and laugh-out-loud wit. He is also a discerning, prolific reader, and it is a pure pleasure being privy to his thoughts on the dozens of writers--including Virginia Woolf, Philip Larkin, A.J. Liebling, Wisawa Szymborska, Clive James, Sharon Olds, and Karl Ove Knausgaard--who speak to him most, at sixty. From an author on whom the telling detail is never lost, Sixty is a richly informative, candid report from the line between middle-aged and soon-to-be-elderly. It perfectly captures the obsessions of a generation realizing that they are no longer young Brown, Ian 1954)--) Diaries Brown, Ian 1954)- Travel Brown, Ian 1954-) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqQvgq4qvbPKMy9fcBkjC Middle-aged persons- Canada- Diaries Middle-aged men- Canada- Diaries Authors, Canadian- Diaries Journalists- Canada- Diaries Aging- Psychological aspects Birthdays- Psychological aspects Aging- Social aspects Personnes d'âge moyen- Canada- Journaux intimes Hommes d'âge moyen- Canada- Journaux intimes Écrivains canadiens- Journaux intimes Journalistes- Canada- Journaux intimes Vieillissement- Aspect psychologique Anniversaires de naissance- Aspect psychologique Vieillissement- Aspect social BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Personal Memoirs. Aging- Psychological aspects. Aging- Social aspects. Authors, Canadian. Birthdays- Psychological aspects. Journalists. Middle-aged men. Middle-aged persons. Travel. Canada. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkMHVW4rfVXPrhVP4VwG3 Autobiography Diary diaries. autobiographies (literary works) travelog (performed works genre) Travel writing. Autobiographies. Diaries. Autobiographies. Diaries. Travel writing. Autobiographies. Journaux intimes. Récits de voyages. Print version Brown, Ian, 1954-. Sixty. New York : The Experiment, 2016 9781615193509 (DLC) 2016012152 (OCoLC)933272439