This Is Getting Old - by Paul Taylor (Paperback)

About the Book

Blending memoir with cultural and political insight, This Is Getting Old is a thoughtful, often funny, sometimes painful, and ultimately hopeful reflection on love, legacy, and the country we pass on to those who follow.

Book Synopsis

In This Is Getting Old, Paul Taylor tells two intertwined stories.

One is the tale of a long marriage shaped by time, as he and his wife navigate the realities of aging in the Adirondack community where their story began.

The other is a candid reckoning with the Baby Boom generation, what it was given, what it got wrong, and what it leaves behind.

Blending memoir with cultural and political insight, this is a thoughtful, often funny, sometimes painful, and ultimately hopeful reflection on love, legacy, and the country we pass on to those who follow.

Review Quotes

"This Is Getting Old is wry and dry-funny and bracingly honest. Paul Taylor is amusing and upfront about himself, boomers, marriage, purpose, health problems, and home renovation. Beautifully written and a delight from start to finish." -Marc Freedman, author of How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations

"With breezy wit and self-deprecating charm, Paul Taylor invites us into the intimate trials of aging, his careers as a journalist and social analyst, and his struggling optimism about his country. It is a memoir of pain and vision, gracefully written and deeply engaging." -David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former New York Times correspondent

"Paul Taylor's deeply informed and beautifully written memoir of two married boomers' personal and societal reckoning-poignant, amusing, thought-provoking, and ultimately hopeful is a cross-generational pleasure. This is must reading for anyone who cares about who we are, how we got here, and what comes next." -Richard North Patterson, New York Times bestselling fiction author and political commentator