{"product_id":"old-age-a-beginners-guide","title":"Old Age: A Beginner's Guide","description":"Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked \"Exit.\"\n\nThe notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you’re gone the reputation you leave behind?\n\nIn this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson’s disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. “Sometimes,” he writes, “I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.”\n\nThis surprisingly cheerful book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man’s journey toward the finish line. “The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting,” he writes. “Parkinson’s disease has fulfilled that obligation.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1101903767\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1101903767.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kinsley, Michael\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516326420538,"sku":"DBV.1101903767.A","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1101903767-0.jpg?v=1783729202","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/old-age-a-beginners-guide","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}