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ID: 445043
Title: Time of Our Lives
Author: Robert Dessaix
Narrator: Paul English
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:20:37
Language: English
Release date: 10-07-20
Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir
Summary:
What's the key to the art of growing older well? Is it an art that anyone can cultivate? How should we confront dying and death in a secular age? What about sex when we're older? What about loneliness? (And, for that matter, what about facelifts?)
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations about ageing with friends and chance acquaintances.
Reflecting on time, religion, painting, dancing and even grandchildren, Dessaix takes us on an enlivening journey across the landscape of growing older. Riffing on writers and thinkers from Plato to Eva Hoffman, he homes in on the crucial importance of a rich inner life.
The Time of Our Lives is a wise and timely exploration of not just the challenges but also the many possibilities of old age.
Praise for Robert Dessaix
Dessaix writes with great elegance, with passion, compassion and sly wit' John Banville
Dessaix's voice and literary personality are unique in contemporary Australian letters' The Sydney Morning Herald
The pleasure and elegance of all Dessaix's writing is in the language, the erudition, the delicate, often unexpected and lovely connections, and the intimate conversational voice' The Weekend Australian