When I Was Young and in My Prime
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2006 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD NOMINEE & NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A deeply humane, deeply human book.
- Michael Crummey
Moving, funny, full of hard truths.
- Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail
What's left of us when we're gone? In When I Was Young and In My Prime, a young woman watches her grandparents begin to decline. As she sorts through the couple's belongings, she reflects on the untold stories and unsung bonds that make up our lives. Meanwhile, modern urban life places strains on her own marriage and on her sense of what, ultimately, we owe each other.
Weaving together voices, diary entries, poems, conversations and lists, When I Was Young and In My Prime cuts to the heart of our search for intimacy and family, for what makes life meaningful and love real. The result is a smart, moving novel about personal and cultural decline, dignity and work, the urban and the rural, the old and the new, and the search for something ageless.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0889712093
ISBN13:9780889712096
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:Nightwood Editions
Length:249 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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