Old Seems to be Other People
$25.71
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2021
Summary
People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men’s good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman…’
Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old.
In this disarming and gently self-deprecating collection of vignettes about ageing, Lily Brett gives us snapshots of her everyday life in New York. After waving enthusiastically to a tall, grey-haired woman s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761042348 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761042343 |
| Author: | Lily Brett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 141mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Lily Brett
Lily Brett was born in Germany and came to Melbourne with her parents in 1948. She is one of Australia’s most loved, prolific and successful authors. She has published six works of fiction, seven books of poetry, and three essay collections to much critical acclaim in Australia and around the world. Her novel Lola Bensky won France’s Prix Medicis Étranger in 2014. Lily Brett is married to the Australian painter David Rankin. They have three children and live in New York.
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