Growing old : notes on aging with something like grace
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now eighty-eight, turns her keen eye to her own life. The result is an account of growing old that is at once funny and charming and intimate and profound, both a memoir and a life-affirming map all of us may follow to embrace our later years with grace and dignity. A charmingly intimate account and a broad look at the social and historical traditions related to aging, Growing Old explores a wide range of issues connected with growing older, from stereotypes of the elderly as burdensome to the methods of burial humans have used throughout history to how to deal with a concerned neighbor who assumes you're buying cat food to eat for dinner.
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Older women > United States > Biography. Aging > United States. Older people > United States > Social conditions > 21st century. |
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Autobiographies. |
- ISBN: 9780062956439
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Physical Description
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213 pages ; 22 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.