The author of The Elements of Effort tenderly recounts his journey from delicate neurosurgery to a canoe trip in Canada, tracing his journey into old age with wit and pathos. 20,000 first printing.
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<b>John Jerome</b> sometimes claims to be retired but can't prove it. He has in the past raced in cars, on skis, and in swimming pools but now lives as slowly as possible in far-western New England and writes books. He is a former magazine editor, advertising copywriter, and columnist for <i>Esquire</i> and <i>Outside</i> magazines. His previous books include <i>Truck, The Sweet Spot in Time, Stone Work</i>, and <i>Blue Rooms</i>.
ally, I've got a lot invested in reaching my stunning current age, and I'm damned if I'm going to hang on to that youthful crap. (I liked the idea of being a sixty-year-old so much I started claiming that age before I turned fifty-nine.) Parts of it, I don't like--the loss of energy that seems its inevitable accompaniment, for example--but when I consider how I used to boil that energy away as a younger man, and the things I boiled it away on, I am happy to accept a shorter tether and a more reflective way of going at things."<br><br><br>John Jerome, author of such beloved books as <i>Truck and Stone Work</i>, entered his sixty-fifth year with a number of goals in mind: to battle the debilities of age, to master them through understanding when he could not physically defeat them, and to keep a journal of these efforts. As he puts it, "It was time to start planning an endgame."<br><br>The result is a warm, compassionate, and honest look at the twelve months that led
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