The view in winter : reflections on old age

by Ronald Blythe

Hardcover, 1979

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Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1980, c1979.

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'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen, soldiers, priests, the widowed and long-retired. Their voices are set in the context of what literature, art, religion and medicine over the centuries have said about ageing. The result is an acclaimed and compelling reflection on an inevitable aspect of our human experience.

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Blythe’s book is neither a clinical nor a statistical social study. He has read his Simone de Beauvoir, but he is not as tendentious as she was.
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This is far removed from the rhetoric of much discussion in the press and policy literature on 'the needs of older people.' It is also far removed from the contempt that is inherent in ageism, which is still rife. “At present there is much in our treatment of the old and our attitudes towards
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them which is scandalously similar to that which governed nineteenth-century attempts to solve the 'intractable' problem of the poor. They are not 'us', is what we are saying (politely and humanely, of course), and there are so many of them!” They are us, and we should live up to the fact. This book helps.
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