"This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But
at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men."
As acclaimed journalist and author Ian Brown's sixtieth birthday loomed,
every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the
biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. Brown
chose instead to notice every moment--to try to capture precisely what
he was experiencing, without panicking. Sixty is the result: an
uncensored, seriocomic report, a slalom of day-to-day dramas (as
husband, father, brother, friend, and neighbor), inquisitive reporting,
and acute insights from the line between middle-aged and
soon-to-be-elderly.