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JOAN DIDION -- LATE IN LIFE

By Joe Woodward

@ The Huffington Post 1/10/12

Excerpt of review of Didion's Blue Nights

"Old age in America is a humorless state of spent energies—a time-desert laced with lost economic and political power and long hours in medical waiting rooms skimming back issues of National Geographic.  Old age in America is a commercial loop stuck on the pros and cons of Medicare Part B and unmeasured time in wall-papered kitchens trying to get child-proof caps off orange prescription bottles.  Old age in America is simply the loss of youth.

The American canon on old age is as unreliable and overstuffed as America itself.  It does not contain the truth.  Rarely, save an occasional AARP advertisement in a magazine or television pitch for “Boost,” the energy drink, do “old people” appear in media at all.  When they do appear, they are most often interested in “eating right” and “exercising” and playing ball with their grandchildren in comfortable shoes and ironed khakis.  There must be more!  

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