{"product_id":"9780544570313","title":"Essays After Eighty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.” \u003ci\u003e— Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e    His entire life, Donald Hall has dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of very old age, he is writing essays that startle, move, and delight. In \u003ci\u003eEssays After Eighty, \u003c\/i\u003eHall ruminates on his past: “thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . .” He also addresses his present: “When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches.”  Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: “Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.”\u003cb\u003e  “Alluring, inspirational hominess . . . \u003ci\u003eEssays After Eighty\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasure . . . balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude.” \u003ci\u003e— Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e   “A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, \u003ci\u003eEssays After Eighty \u003c\/i\u003eis to be treasured.” — \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026366251248,"sku":"9780544570313","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544570313_p0.jpg?v=1763711783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544570313","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}