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

Brown, Professor Of Information Security And Privacy Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1615193502 ISBN 13: 9781615193509

Publisher: Experiment, 2016

Synopsis

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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About the Author

An acclaimed feature reporter for the Globe and Mail, Ian Brown is also the award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son, one of The New York Times' 10 best books of the year. He lives in Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Experiment
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615193502
• ISBN 13: 9781615193509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320