Slowing Down
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Word Count
55,000 words, Guess
Page Count
220 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11069274M
- ISBN-139780670914098
- ISBN-100670914096
- OCLC Control Number61302300
- OCLC Control Numberslowingdown0000mell_k9v8
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006365129
- Goodreads6593060
- LibraryThing3657474
Classifications
- LCCML420.M375 A3 2005
Description
George Melly is 79 nudging 80. You'll probably think, 'That's not old these days'. And it's true, George is still swinging and singing, fly-fishing, flirting, and for now just playing at senility. But it's not as if he were the Queen Mother. He walks very slowly nowadays. He's losing control over his bladder, and his bowels. He no longer, being quite deaf, enjoys noisy parties. He's been seriously ill once, and not quite well often. And he's constantly being probed and tinkered with at St Mary's Hospital: like an old car in and out of the garage. Sex has walked out on him, but Irish Whiskey, in only slightly diminished quantities, remains a good friend. This remarkably cheerful book is his diary of it all. An extraordinary, darkly funny, frank, and larger-than-life account about how feels to be growing old and irresistibly Slowing Down.
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