{"product_id":"9781911425571","title":"C'est la vie: The fun and follies of four-score years","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was the writer Hunter Davies, though he does not know it, who prompted me to write this book. He, like me, had\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereached the ripe age of 80 and he wrote a long article, composed of 80 paragraphs, which appeared in the \u003cem\u003eSunday Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. The article listed the joys of being 80. I was inspired by much of what he wrote, such as his paragraph 40 which read: “I am still working at 80. You just stagger on, hoping to get away with it, writing this sort of stuff, for example …. ”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a time when I had recently written\u003cem\u003e My Speaking Journey\u003c\/em\u003e of 30 years and also \u003cem\u003eThose Trinity Years\u003c\/em\u003e. Although writing books had not featured in my bucket list, an interest in scribbling had taken hold. I was flirting with the concept of memoirs, but I certainly had no interest in a full chronological biography. However, Hunter Davies’s scheme of ‘80 items’ made me think further.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is this compilation of 80 separate chats illustrating the fun and follies of my 80 years. I am pleased to share both my pleasures and my observations with you, and ask you to forgive the faults of memory and the occasional repetitions which are bound to have occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Filament Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057287676144,"sku":"9781911425571","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911425571_p0.jpg?v=1763630534","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911425571","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}