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Essays After Eighty

Essays After Eighty

Hall, Donald

Paperback

Letters & EssaysGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0544570316
ISBN13: 9780544570313
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Nov 3 2015
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.--New York Times

Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge. -- Wall Street Journal

His entire life, Donald Hall has dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Now, in the unknown, unanticipated galaxy of very old age, he is writing essays that startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . . He also addresses his present: When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches. Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.

Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . Essays After Eighty is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude. -- Washington Post

A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, Essays After Eighty is to be treasured. -- Boston Globe

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