Lastingness: The Art of Old Age (精装)

基本信息出版社:Grand Central Publishing (2011年1月24日)精装:272页正文语种:英语ISBN:0446199648条形码:9780446199643ASIN:0446199648商品描述内容简介One of the country's leading literary scholars, explores the fascinating question of why some people's creative talents flourish with age while others' fade.

America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. And if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals, and presidents to have reached a certain age. In context after context and contest after contest, we're more than a little conflicted about elders of the tribe; when is it right to honor them, and when to say "step aside"?

In his new book, Nicholas Delbanco, one of America's most formidable scholars, tackles the enigma of "lastingness," searching for the answers to the question of why some artists' work diminishes with age, and that of others reaches its peak. Both an intellectual inquiry ino the essence of aging and creativity and a personal journey of discovery, LASTINGNESS is a brilliant exploration of what determines what one needs to do to keep the habits of creation and achievement alive.作者简介Nicholas Delbanco has published twenty-four books of fiction and non-fiction. His most recent novels areThe Count of ConcordandSpring and Fall; his most recent works of non-fiction areThe Countess of Stanlein RestoredandThe Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life.As editor he has compiled the work of, among others, John Gardner and Bernard Malamud. Director of the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, he has served as Chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, twice, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship.