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

Brown, Ian

ISBN 10: 1615193502 / ISBN 13: 9781615193509

Published by The Experiment, 2016

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Missing dust cover, otherwise book is in good condition with some wear from normal use.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?
• Publisher: The Experiment
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615193502
• ISBN 13: 9781615193509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Ian Brown writes immersive, deeply reported, narratively driven feature stories about a wide variety of subjects for Canada’s The Globe and Mail. He is a contributor to This American Life and Morningside and has been the host of three CBC radio programs: Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning. Ian Brown is also the award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon (one of The New York Times’ 10 best books of the year), Sixty and Seventy. He lives in Toronto.