Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Turning seventy, Thomas Farber appraises the writing life, aging, love, his own fate, and ours. In this spare, elegant volume he takes the measure of both his vocation and, in several quite different ways, his troubled heart. Retracing a life's paths Boston, northern California, Honolulu and marveling at the closely observed natural world, he evokes his extraordinary poet-mother, treasured books and friends, the miracle...