Slowing down
By: George Melly
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Chivers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781405638425; 9781405638432
Subjects: Jazz singers; Biography; Aging; Anecdotes; Old age; Large type books
Description: George Melly is nudging 80. He is still swinging and singing, fly-fishing, flirting, and for now just playing at senility. But he walks very slowly these days. He's losing control over his bladder, and his bowels. He no longer, being quite deaf, enjoys noisy parties. He's been seriously ill once, and not quite well often. And he's constantly being probed and tinkered with, at St Mary's Hospital: like an old car in and out of the garage. Sex has walked out on him, but Irish Whiskey, in only slightly diminished quantities, remains a good friend. This remarkably cheerful book is his diary of it all. A darkly funny, frank, and larger-than-life account about how he feels to be growing old and irresistibly slowing down.