Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, Which He Flatters Himself Formerly Did Him Noble Service

by William Ian Miller

Book Overview

From the author of The Anatomy of Disgust, a wickedly funny, effortlessly erudite essay on the horrors of old age, past and present

In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The "it" in Miller's "losing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300188234
• ISBN13: 9780300188233
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"