"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."--New York Times
"Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge." -- Wall Street Journal
His entire life, Donald Hall...
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the unknown, unanticipated galaxy of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight. Hall paints his past: Decades...