The View from 80"Malcolm Cowley's account of life in one's ninth decade began as a widely hailed, award-winning article in Life magazine. Enriched and enlarged with further reflections, anecdotes, and readers' responses to the original piece, it has become an elegant and touching contemporary classic"--Back cover. |
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