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Remuera Library Event: Loving All Of It
Join Gordon McLauchlan in entertaining conversation with Brian Edward and Rodney Walsh (with Sir Wilson Whineray sitting in the "front row") musing on the delights, and occasional frustrations, of growing old.
Gordon's new heart-warming and absorbing book, Loving All of It, includes, in addition to our three guest panellists, contributions by many other celebrated New Zealanders like Elizabeth McRae, Dame Kate Harcourt, Hamish Keith and Sir Bruce Slane.
Thursday 15 July, 6:30PM
Venue: Remuera Community Library, 429 Remuera Road, Auckland
Tickets: $5.00 from the Remuera Library. There is limited seating, phone 09 374 1323
Light refreshments will be served
To see the poster, click here.
About the Book
The late baby boomers are starting to reflect on ways to grow old well, and these 32 affecting pieces by prominent New Zealanders over the age of 65 serve as extremely strong pieces of autobiography, as inspiration and as meditation. No zimmerframes and retirement homes for this lot.
The contributors, who include Elizabeth McRae, Wilson Whineray, Ranginui Walker, Brian Edwards, Hamish Keith, Elizabeth Smither, Barry Brickell, Michael Corballis and Sir Bruce Slane, continue to make a vital contribution to our nation. Editor Gordon McLauchlan encouraged them to be frank and self revealing. Their essays read like letters for their eventual descendants: on how they saw the world and themselves when young, on the issues around growing old, on how they see the future, and on the wisdom they've picked up along the way. It's a compelling, essential collection.
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