{"product_id":"sixty-a-diary-of-my-sixty-first-year-the-beginning-of-the-end-or-the-end-of-the-beginning-9781615193509","title":"Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning writer, Brown instead chose to notice every moment, try to understand it, capture it . . . all without panicking. \u003ci\u003eSixty\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an author on whom the telling detail is never lost, \u003ci\u003eSixty\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Experiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781615193509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2016 pg. 7\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ian Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44723176276149,"sku":"9781615193509","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b97106b4-b379-43f1-95cd-b76f8058ab89.jpg?v=1729006929","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sixty-a-diary-of-my-sixty-first-year-the-beginning-of-the-end-or-the-end-of-the-beginning-9781615193509","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}