
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...

Ever since I have inhabited old age, I have looked and listened, mostly in vain, for news of what it is like for others who inhabit it too. Naturally, I'm interested in its well-known depredations, the physical and mental ones that people in their forties and fifties so publicly...