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Time on Our Side: Growing in Wisdom, Not Growing Old (Paperback)

by Dorothy Rowe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (12 Jun 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006380840
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006380849
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 294,174 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Rowe's most far-reaching book' Linda Grant, Guardian 'Very wise ... Dorothy Rowe serves up a stimulating, well-written and illuminating read' Irish Times


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Now that life expectancy in the developed world is well over 70, fear of imminent death has receded and been replaced by a dread of growing old. While our definition of old is dependent on the age we have reached - in our 20s we fear turning 30, in our 50s we fear turning 60 and becoming an old-age pensioner - we all share a horror of becoming one of those forgetful, incapacitated, ludicrous figures our parents, aunts and uncles may have become. Dorothy Rowe has talked to people aged from five to 95 about how they view ageing, time and death. She has listened to people from societies where the old are revered and respected as well as people from societies like our own, where they are not. She finds that our fear of ageing far outweighs the real difficulties, most of which could be ameliorated if we were sensible. When we are not, we find that as we advance through life, the mistakes we made in our youth often return to haunt us. However, we can change and Dorothy Rowe offers us in this book a distillation of wisdom which provides support and hope and a new way of looking at the future.

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3.0 out of 5 stars useful guide to how to grow old with with some wisdom, 19 Jan 2008
By naomi roberts (cambridge uk) - See all my reviews
Thought ths was an unusual and helpful book on my first reading. On re-reading it a few years later later, I still thought it contained insights and wisdom but I also noticed a lot of over -simplified thinking and not so logical reasoning. The chapter on cruelty to children ,whilst interesting, is linked to the young's hatred of the old yet without convincing evidence. She relies on endless anecdotes and newspaper articles rather than on scholarly works and as a result, ten years on, the book has really dated. Rowe also has a tendency to disparage various schools of psychology and psychoanalysis in a somewhat simplistic way though a lot of her ideas are clearly derived from them. However, despite these flaws this book does offer some insights as to how to age well rather than with anger and bitterness, to grow old wisely in other words.
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