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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide by Kinsley, Michael
by Kinsley, Michael | HC | VeryGood
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 1101903767
- Book Title
- Old Age : a Beginner's Guide
- Item Length
- 7.1in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Health & Fitness, Medical, Literary Collections, Social Science, Philosophy
- Topic
- Neurology, Gerontology, Personal Growth / General, Sociology / General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Essays, Diseases / General
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 7.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers--the largest age cohort in history--are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you're gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson's disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. "Sometimes," he writes, "I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties." This surprisingly cheerful book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man's journey toward the finish line. "The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting," he writes. "Parkinson's disease has fulfilled that obligation."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1101903767
ISBN-13
9781101903766
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219256410
Product Key Features
Book Title
Old Age : a Beginner's Guide
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Neurology, Gerontology, Personal Growth / General, Sociology / General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Essays, Diseases / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Health & Fitness, Medical, Literary Collections, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.1in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
7.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3611.I655 2016
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" Old Age is irreverent, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny about living long enough for your organs to start to betray you. Count on Michael Kinsley to write the book about life you didn't know you needed." --Atul Gawande, " Old Age is irreverent, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny about living long enough for your organs to start to betray you. Count on Michael Kinsley to write the book about life you didn't know you needed." --Atul Gawande "If aging is an opponent, I can't think of anyone better suited to take it on than Michael Kinsley. His prodigious wit and intellect cut straight through to the realities -- positive and negative -- of growing older. By turns funny and rueful, but always real, this book is a must-read for newcomers to the world of old age." --Michael J. Fox, A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Editors' Choice "A superb new book . . . A generational cri de coeur. . . . Mr. Kinsley possesses what is probably the most envied journalistic voice of his generation: skeptical, friendly, possessed of an almost Martian intelligence." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Wickedly funny. . . . Especially poignant. . . . Among all the books published in recent years about old age and dying, it would be hard to find one that is more fun to read than Old Age ." -- Reeve Lindbergh, The Washington Post "Kinsley brings wisdom and artfully suppressed anger, wistful humor, well-pitched prose, and the bite of the thinker against the pretenses of the world. . . . Old Age is not a little book about economics or Parkinson's disease, but it is a big little book about what happens when we begin to think beyond who has won the race." -- Peter Stothard, The Wall Street Journal "If aging is an opponent, I can't think of anyone better suited to take it on than Michael Kinsley. His prodigious wit and intellect cut straight through to the realities--positive and negative--of growing older. By turns funny and rueful, but always real, this book is a must-read for newcomers to the world of old age." -- Michael J. Fox "Hilarious. . . . Witty. . . . If it's possible for a book about illness and death to be delightful, this one fills the bill." -- Phillip Lopate, The New York Times Book Review " Old Age is irreverent, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny about living long enough for your organs to start to betray you. Count on Michael Kinsley to write the book about life you didn't know you needed." -- Atul Gawande "Michael Kinsley, a favorite around here, has written a smart, funny, and profound little memoir." -- Pamela Paul, The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-038958
Dewey Decimal
814/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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