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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide Audiobook
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you’re gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson’s disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. “Sometimes,” he writes, “I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.” This surprisingly cheerful book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man’s journey toward the finish line. “The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting,” he writes. “Parkinson’s disease has fulfilled that obligation.”
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“Kinsley…reads the foreword and introduction of his surprisingly uplifting meditation on aging. When narrator Danny Campbell takes over, his tone and vocal maturity sound a lot like Kinsley’s. Adding the appealing texture of his utterly authentic phrasing, Campbell’s performance is ideal for this intelligent book…With Danny Campbell reading, the book’s message acquires the power to captivate…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Hilarious…Witty…If it’s possible for a book about illness and death to be delightful, this one fills the bill.”
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“Wickedly funny…Among all the books published in recent years about old age and dying, it would be hard to find one that is more fun to read than Old Age.”
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“Kinsley brings wisdom and artfully suppressed anger, wistful humor, well-pitched prose, and the bite of the thinker against the pretenses of the world.”
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“A wise and edgy guide to old age…A humorous but penetrating look at the issues the baby-boomer generation should consider as it confronts life’s last phase.”
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“[A] satisfying examination of the importance of ‘long years of good health, not long years simply breathing in and out.’"
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“Throughout, Kinsley showcases his fine writing, tackling a potentially depressing subject with a mixture of humor and serious reflection.”
— Publishers Weekly
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A New York Times Editor’s Choice
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A New York Times Bestseller
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A Time Magazine Pick for the Best Books of 2016 So Far
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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#1 Washington Post bestseller
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About Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley is a columnist at Vanity Fair, a contributor to the New Yorker, and the founder of Slate. He has served as the editor of the New Republic and Harper’s, the managing editor of the Washington Monthly, and the American editor of the Economist. He lives in Washington, DC.
About Danny Campbell
Danny Campbell is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actor who has appeared in CBS’ The Guardian, the films A Pool, a Fool, and a Duel and Greater Than Gravity, and in over twenty-five commercials. He is a company member of the Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles and is an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica College.