书籍介绍
An esteemed memoirist examines aging with the grace of "Elegy for Iris" and the wry irreverence of "I Feel Bad About My Neck," Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Now in her ninety-first year, "entirely untamed about both old and new conventions" ("Literary Review") and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old--the losses and occasionally the gains that age brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Distinguished by "remarkable intelligence... and the] easy elegance of her prose" ("Daily Telegraph"), this short, well-crafted book, hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" ("Sunday Telegraph") presents an inspiring work for those hoping to flourish in their later years.
用户评论
芝加哥时间壬寅年的最后几分钟。即使在生命尽头能坦诚面对自己也是勇气，哪怕是带有美化的坦诚。
第四章开始有点意思，有说到宗教对于不信教的人来说它的艺术性存在意义，把看言情小说比喻What I needed was to practise the sensations of sex – to indulge in a kind of non-genital masturbation ，哈哈可爱
The author is a funny, frank old lady. Though this is a book about aging, it suits young readers as well. As Diana Athill also talks about love, sex, adultery (or just sex without emotional attachment), life without children and friendship.
Proof that voracious reading doesn’t always transpire to good writing.
难以掩饰的傲慢之感，无比浅薄
老了会是什么样子。
ps，老太太真的很爱用倒装句啊。
读到103岁犹太钢琴家的故事的时候，我的眼睛亮了一下
下半部走低，文字匠气盖过诚意。
Of course much of it can be inflicted or bestowed on one by others, or by things such as a virus, or climate, or war, or economic recession; but much of it is built into one genetically, and the greatest good luck of all is built-in resilience.