This is about the \'old old\', not the physically lively sixty- and seventy-year-olds, but octogenarians having a voice.
He balances lightness and seriousness and this book wil.
It deals with frailty, loss, loneliness and death, but it is far from being a gloomy book: Hansen is a literary man and he uses extracts from novels and poems to help in exploring growing old.
This book gives the young and middle-aged insights into the world of the elderly.
The eighties are when it all begins to crumble.
This is about the \'old old\', not the physically lively sixty- and seventy-year-olds, but octogenarians having a voice