num_pages: 288
description: Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his heart, Herz finds himself also blessed with a stirring sense of exhilaration. After a lifetime of deferring to others’ stronger wills, he faces a future of possibility, the only constraint the deeply ingrained habits of his mind. Profound and deeply resonant, Making Things Better explores the quandaries of aging, longing, and self-discovery with transfixing precision and spellbinding acuity.
language: English
title: Making Things Better
titlecomplete: Making Things Better
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Female Authors, Literature, Romance, Classics, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 414
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Vintage