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2006 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD NOMINEE & NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A deeply humane, deeply human book.
- Michael Crummey

Moving, funny, full of hard truths.
- Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail

What''s left of us when we''re gone? In When I Was Young and In My Prime, a young woman watches her grandparents begin to decline. As she sorts through the couple''s belongings, she reflects on the untold stories and unsung bonds that make up our lives. Meanwhile, modern urban life places strains on her own marriage and on her sense of what, ultimately, we owe each other.

Weaving together voices, diary entries, poems, conversations and lists, When I Was Young and In My Prime cuts to the heart of our search for intimacy and family, for what makes life meaningful and love real. The result is a smart, moving novel about personal and cultural decline, dignity and work, the urban and the rural, the old and the new, and the search for something ageless.

When I Was Young and in My Prime

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      Publisher: Nightwood Editions
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/10/2005
      ISBN13: 9780889712096, 978-0889712096
      ISBN10: 889712093

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      2006 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD NOMINEE & NATIONAL BESTSELLER

      A deeply humane, deeply human book.
      - Michael Crummey

      Moving, funny, full of hard truths.
      - Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail

      What''s left of us when we''re gone? In When I Was Young and In My Prime, a young woman watches her grandparents begin to decline. As she sorts through the couple''s belongings, she reflects on the untold stories and unsung bonds that make up our lives. Meanwhile, modern urban life places strains on her own marriage and on her sense of what, ultimately, we owe each other.

      Weaving together voices, diary entries, poems, conversations and lists, When I Was Young and In My Prime cuts to the heart of our search for intimacy and family, for what makes life meaningful and love real. The result is a smart, moving novel about personal and cultural decline, dignity and work, the urban and the rural, the old and the new, and the search for something ageless.

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