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Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.-- New York Times Deliciously readable . . .
Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge. -- Wall Street Journal His entire life,
Donald Hall dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Here, in the unknown, unanticipated galaxy of very old age, his essays startle, move, and delight. In
Essays After Eighty,
Hall ruminates on his past: thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . . He also addresses his present: When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches. Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again. Alluring, inspirational hominess . . .
Essays After Eighty is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude. -- Washington Post A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past,
Essays After Eighty is to be treasured. -- Boston Globe