The secret diary of Hendrik Groen
By: Hendrik Groen ; translated by Hester Velmans
Contributors: Velmans, Hester, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781455542178
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Retirement communities; Social conditions; Older men; Older people; Fiction
Other titles: Secret diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 years old
Work titles: Pogingen iets van het leven te maken
Description: "Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing all its ups and downs--not least his new endeavor, the anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club. And when Eefje moves in--the woman Hendrik has always longed for--he polishes his shoes (and his teeth), grooms what's left of his hair and attempts to make something of the life he has left, with hilarious, tender and devastating consequences."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Translation from the Dutch of: Pogingen iets van het leven te maken.

"First published in the Netherlands as 'Attempts to Make Something of Life.  The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old' by Meulenhoff 2014"--Title page verso.