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Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? Hardcover - 2016

by Ian Brown


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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, Wislawa 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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  • Title Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?
  • Author Ian Brown
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st.
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Experiment
  • Date 2016-08
  • ISBN 9781615193509 / 1615193502
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.1 in (20.57 x 13.46 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
  • Library of Congress subjects Diaries, Aging - Psychological aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016012152
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 07/01/2016, Page 7
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2016, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/13/2016, Page 0
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