Older and wiser
Subtitle: essays
By: by Frank Devine, 2002-2009
Publisher: Quadrant Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780980677805
Subjects: Aging; History and criticism
Description: "Growing old is an aspect of the human experience only thinly covered in literature. When he reached seventy, Frank Devine decided to add to the subject with a series of essays on what it feels like to grow old and how to do it well. In this selection he writes about his cancer treatment, about being home alone when his wife is hospitalized, about long-term marriage, and about the proper attitude and attire of a man his age. He also looks back on his career in newspapers and discusses good writers and famous men. This is the celebrated series in which a retired journalist turns himself into one of our great essayists."--BOOK JACKET.