About Time: Growing Old Disgracefully

In this frank, often funny, and always compelling disquisition on aging, Irma Kurtz sets out to chart the territory through her own and others' experiences. Along the way she meets a diverse group of people whose insights into their own lives have much to offer a younger generation--from a 90-year-old weekly columnist and a vicar still working in his mid-70s to "The Good Granny Guide'"s Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and 'London's Rudest Landlord' Normal Balon of the celebrated Coach and Horses. Kurtz is a fearless investigator of the art of growing old--its pleasures and its griefs--carrying with her the only tool that sharpens with age: lifelong curiosity.