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"This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men." As acclaimed journalist and author Ian Brown's sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. Brown chose instead to notice every moment—to try to capture precisely what he was experiencing, without panicking. Sixty is the result: an uncensored, seriocomic report, a slalom of day-to-day dramas (as husband, father, brother, friend, and neighbor), inquisitive reporting, and acute insights from the line between middle-aged and soon-to-be-elderly.
"This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men." As acclaimed journalist and author Ian Brown's sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer ...
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Ian Brown is an author and a feature writer for The Globe and Mail whose work has won many awards. His book, Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction as well as for the RBC Taylor Prize. He is also the author of The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son, which was one of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the Year; it also won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Trillium Book Award. His previous books include Freewheeling, which won Canada’s National Business Book Award, and the provocative examination of modern masculinity, Man Overboard. He lives in Toronto.
Ian Brown is an author and a feature writer for The Globe and Mail whose work has won many awards. His book, Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction as well as for the RBC Taylor Prize. He is also the author of The Boy in th...
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