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  • This Strange Visible Air

  • Essays on Aging and the Writing Life
  • By: Sharon Butala
  • Narrated by: Nina Richmond
  • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

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This Strange Visible Air

By: Sharon Butala
Narrated by: Nina Richmond
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Publisher's summary

A collection of essays on women and aging from Canadian legend Sharon Butala

"What I didn't have a clue about was that I was soon to be old, or what being old would mean to my dreams and desires. While dreading old age with every fibre, I was at the same time in full denial that it would ever happen to me, and so, was shocked down to the soles of my feet when it did."

In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massively, and so she tackles ageism and loneliness, friendship and companionship. She writes with pointed wit and acerbic humour about dinner parties and health challenges and forgetfulness and complicated family relationships and the pandemic—and lettuce. And she tells her story with the tremendous skill and beauty of a writer who has masterfully honed her craft over the course of her storied four-decade career.

Butala gives us a book to be cherished—an elegant and expansive look at the complexities and desires of aging and the aged, standing in stark contrast to the stereotyped, simplistic portrayals of the elderly in our culture. This Strange Visible Air is a true gift.

©2021 Sharon Butala (P)2023 Freehand Books
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Critic reviews

"A timely manifesto about old age, which Sharon Butala shows us is far more interesting than is commonly understood. Butala is a talented and original author who writes with lyric grace and a tantalizing touch of mysticism." (Susan Swan)

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