{"product_id":"on-turning-sixtyfive-notes-from-the-field-9780375500565","title":"On Turning Sixty-Five: Notes from the Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Personally  Ive got a lot invested in reaching my stunning current age  and Im damned if Im going to hang on to that youthful crap. (I liked the idea of being a sixty-year-old so much I started claiming that age before I turned fifty-nine.) Parts of it  I dont like--the loss of energy that seems its inevitable accompaniment  for example--but when I consider how I used to boil that energy away as a younger man  and the things I boiled it away on  I am happy to accept a shorter tether and a more reflective way of going at things.\"  John Jerome  author of such beloved books as Truck and Stone Work  entered his sixty-fifth year with a number of goals in mind: to battle the debilities of age  to master them through understanding when he could not physically defeat them  and to keep a journal of these efforts. As he puts it  \"It was time to start planning an endgame.\"  The result is a warm  compassionate  and honest look at the twelve months that led him to the gateway of old age--a survey of this time of life which ranges from strict physiology to expansive philosophy  from delicate neurosurgery to rough weather on a Canadian canoeing trip  from the despair and isolation of illness to the love and comfort of a sound marriage. The writing  in its clarity  grace  and humor  matches its authors spirit. \"The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our time \" Jerome reminds us. Reading this wise and funny chronicle of one mans--and everymans--journey toward citizenship  senior division  will be time well spent  for young and old alike. It is that rare kind of book which comes to life as a companion  and even a friend.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646887485493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375500561","price":28.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375500565.jpg?v=1781680109","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/on-turning-sixtyfive-notes-from-the-field-9780375500565","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}