The ART OF GROWING OLD: WRITERS ON LIVING AND AGING - Hardcover

Booth, Wayne C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671781928 ISBN 13: 9780671781927

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1992

Synopsis

An anthology of poetry and prose on the subject of aging presents the work of such literary figures as Petrarch, Seneca, Beckett, and Updike as well as the art of Rembrandt and others

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Old Age is a territory that most of us can expect to enter and brave, however tentatively. In this anthology, Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works of some of our greatest writers--Shakespeare, Emily Bronte, Walt Whitman, and many more--on the art of growing older. Profound, witty, shrewd, compassionate, but never sentimental, he deals candidly with losses, fears, and lamentations, but then dwells on not just the consolations but the reasons for celebration.

About the Author:

Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His many books includeThe Rhetoric of Fiction, A Rhetoric of Irony, The Power and Limits of Pluralism,The Vocation of a Teacher, and Forthe Love of It, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671781928
• ISBN 13: 9780671781927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352