Bibliograph

Growing old, notes on aging with something like grace, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Type

Label

Growing old, notes on aging with something like grace, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Growing old

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Sub title

notes on aging with something like grace

Summary

Written with wit and compassion, this book is an expansive and deeply personal paean to the beauty and the brevity of life that offers understanding for everyone, regardless of age. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now 88, turns her keen eye to her own life. The result is an account of growing old that is at once funny and charming, intimate and profound - both a memoir and a life-affirming map all of us may follow to embrace our later years with grace and dignity. Growing Old explores a wide range of issues connected with ageing, from stereotypes of the elderly as burdensome to the methods of burial that humans have used throughout history to how to deal with a concerned neighbour who assumes you're buying cat food to eat for dinner

Target audience

adult

Classification