Scanned book. Deeply thoughtful, wry,&nbsp;and resilient, this fascinating and absorbing book about growing&nbsp;older is a literate and&nbsp;life-enhancing look at what all of us—if we are lucky—can aspire to&nbsp;"I like being old at least as much as I liked being middle aged and a good deal more than I liked being young."&nbsp;&nbsp;Like Diana Athill's&nbsp;Somewhere Towards the End, this series of perceptive and warm-hearted&nbsp;essays is an incisive look at aging. Jane Miller&nbsp;dips back and forth&nbsp;easily between the personal and the literary, discussing the deep sustaining&nbsp;joys of&nbsp;friendship; the treatment of old age in literature from&nbsp;Tolstoy to&nbsp;Updike, Wharton to&nbsp;de Beauvoir; the loss of interest in such once-central preoccupation as&nbsp;fashion and sex; physical ailments; and exactly how age changes others' perceptions of one, including within one's own family. This reflective, intimate memoir beautifully examines and rethinks&nbsp;what it means to be old in a culture which prides youth and views old age as a slow decline towards the end of life.

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