The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and AgingWayne C. Booth Poseidon Press, 1992 - 349 sidor Immensely rewarding reflections on what his seventy years have taught him. Profound, witty, shrewd, compassionate but never sentimental, Booth acknowledges, with characteristic candor, what has been lost, but also reminds us what remains to console, even to celebrate. Like the writers he has gathered, his subject is as much living as aging. And in the vitality and splendor of these contributors, we discover that the very act of making great art out of growing older is. |
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The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging Wayne C. Booth Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1996 |
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