GROWING OLD

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' GROWING OLD is a poignant and detailed account of the physical and mental processes of aging, told with humor, insight, and grace.

Using her extensive career as a researcher and nonfiction author, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas maps life and death across centuries of human development alongside her own singular experience with aging. Thomas once lived in the bush, examining hunter-gatherer corpses. Now eighty-seven, she can't conduct the work she once did, but that doesn't mean her story is over. Thanks to Thomas's honest, passionate prose, GROWING OLD isn't a lament. It is instead a fierce celebration of life, aging, and death.

This will appeal to readers of works such as Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow's The Last Lecture and Kathryn Mannix's With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial, and most readers know her accessible tone as evidenced her classic book The Hidden Life of Dogs.