SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END
Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award. Diana Athill was one of the great editors in British publishing. As a writer, Athill made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Writing in her ninety-first year, entirely untamed about both old and new conventions (Literary Review) and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old. . . the losses and occasionally the gains that age brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to face death.