Seventy
A Diary of My Seventy-First Year
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Seventy
Narrated by:
Ian Brown
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Ian Brown
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Ian Brown
An acclaimed journalist and chronicler of contemporary life, seventy-year-old Ian Brown is not going gently into his eighth decade. The outlook is more perilous than it was at age sixty, but Brown is determined (however hopelessly) not to let time get the better of him. During the course of his seventy-first year, Brown writes incessantly, travelling on assignment for the Globe and Mail across the United States in the months leading to the shocking 2024 election; holidays with family and friends, always aware he might not see them again; skis and rows and exercises like a madman while turning a wary eye on the live-forever movement; takes up pickleball and talks books; and in general tries (and frequently fails) to show some human courage in the face of the march of his dwindling years.
Along the way he encounters the lists that have suddenly become essential to daily life (what to take when leaving the house, what to pack for a trip, what to pick up at the drugstore); the indignities of medical tests and the shock of financing a retirement; the terrors and pleasures of growing older with one’s spouse of four decades; the now-suspenseful drama of sex; the thrilling spectacle of watching adult children inhabit new roles of familial responsibility; and the shocking new lessons of life as an older person (accept compliments with grace, remember to smile, stand up straighter).
As the percentage of the Canadian population over eighty-five will triple in the next twenty-five years, Brown contemplates his mortality and that of his contemporaries for readers of all ages. Growing old—anything after seventy—is a grave challenge, but also enormously liberating: if there is something you want to say or do, now is your chance to say it or do it. “I have to keep taking chances,” Brown reckons. “I don’t want to give in too soon.”
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Critic Reviews
AN INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PRAISE FOR SEVENTY:
“Brown spent the bulk of his previous memoir trying to deny, ignore or stave off the grand march of time, but in this new volume he finds there is no escaping it. If Sixty was, in large part, a lament for things not done, roads not taken and dreams not realized, Seventy is an even more straightforward reckoning with mortality, not as a theoretical concept but an existential fact. . . . It’s worthwhile to note his courage in frankly addressing matters of sexuality and aging as this still seems like a subject many would prefer to avoid thinking about altogether. . . . Testament to a life thoroughly lived. . . . [Brown] maintains a sense of proportion and a willingness to heed the counsel of a younger generation.”
—Globe and Mail
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SEVENTY:
“I was utterly unsurprised by how much I loved Seventy. Deeply touching. . . . Ian Brown approaches his looming eighth decade with predictable panache and self-critical humour. He is the loveliest of writers and the principal delight of Seventy is the same welcoming offer he made in Sixty: an open invitation to be his good friend and confidant. It is an incomparable gift.”
—John Fraser, award-winning journalist and author of The Governors General: An Intimate History of Canada’s Highest Office
“Seventy is classic Ian Brown. On matters great and small, he observes the passage of time--its random joys, its pointless cruelties, the ebb and flow of trend and politics, its terrible humbling of human vanity—with an eye that manages to be relentless and forgiving at the same time.”
—Stephen Marche, author of On Writing and Failure
PRAISE FOR SEVENTY:
“Brown spent the bulk of his previous memoir trying to deny, ignore or stave off the grand march of time, but in this new volume he finds there is no escaping it. If Sixty was, in large part, a lament for things not done, roads not taken and dreams not realized, Seventy is an even more straightforward reckoning with mortality, not as a theoretical concept but an existential fact. . . . It’s worthwhile to note his courage in frankly addressing matters of sexuality and aging as this still seems like a subject many would prefer to avoid thinking about altogether. . . . Testament to a life thoroughly lived. . . . [Brown] maintains a sense of proportion and a willingness to heed the counsel of a younger generation.”
—Globe and Mail
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SEVENTY:
“I was utterly unsurprised by how much I loved Seventy. Deeply touching. . . . Ian Brown approaches his looming eighth decade with predictable panache and self-critical humour. He is the loveliest of writers and the principal delight of Seventy is the same welcoming offer he made in Sixty: an open invitation to be his good friend and confidant. It is an incomparable gift.”
—John Fraser, award-winning journalist and author of The Governors General: An Intimate History of Canada’s Highest Office
“Seventy is classic Ian Brown. On matters great and small, he observes the passage of time--its random joys, its pointless cruelties, the ebb and flow of trend and politics, its terrible humbling of human vanity—with an eye that manages to be relentless and forgiving at the same time.”
—Stephen Marche, author of On Writing and Failure
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