{"product_id":"crazy-age-thoughts-on-being-old-9781844086498","title":"Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old\u003c\/strong\u003e by Miller, Jane. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781844086498.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply thoughtful, wry, and resilient, this fascinating and absorbing book about growing older is a literate and life-enhancing look at what all of us—if we are lucky—can aspire to \"I like being old at least as much as I liked being middle aged and a good deal more than I liked being young.\" Like Diana Athills Somewhere Towards the End, this series of perceptive and warm-hearted essays is an incisive look at aging. Jane Miller dips back and forth easily between the personal and the literary, discussing the deep sustaining joys of friendship; the treatment of old age in literature from Tolstoy to Updike, Wharton to de Beauvoir; the loss of interest in such once-central preoccupation as fashion and sex; physical ailments; and exactly how age changes others perceptions of one, including within ones own family. This reflective, intimate memoir beautifully examines and rethinks what it means to be old in a culture which prides youth and views old age as a slow decline towards the end of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"LITTLE, BROWN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964183375925,"sku":"ByrdShop_1844086496","price":34.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781844086498_cc506e77-0d3f-4652-8b48-12eb8af50f6b.jpg?v=1781151533","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/crazy-age-thoughts-on-being-old-9781844086498","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}