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    A Long Time Coming: essays on ageing

    By Melanie Joosten

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NIB: WAVERLEY LIBRARY AWARD FOR LITERATURE

    A powerful collection of essays exploring what it means to grow old in our youth-obsessed world

    To live a long life should be a joy; to be old should not be a burden.

    With improved health care and higher standards of living, each generation is living longer than the last. Governments see our ageing population as an imminent disaster, and old age as a medical problem. We are encouraged to remain active, stay healthy, and work longer — in short, to refuse becoming old. But if living longer is really about staying young, do we risk turning a blind eye to issues facing the elderly?

    Weaving interviews with research and memoir, Joosten undertakes a timely and clear-sighted investigation into the housing crisis as it affects older people, the politics of nursing-home care, the difficulties of dementia, support services for Indigenous Australians, and how the burden of caring for others can fall disproportionately on women.

    Moving, passionate, and urgent, A Long Time Coming is a call for empathy in a society that valorises youth and self-reliance — a profound reminder that everyone has the right to be old.

    PRAISE FOR MELANIE JOOSTEN

    ‘[A] fine collection … shows deep commitment and quite profound levels of insight and compassion.’ The Weekend Australian

    ‘Heartening … [Joosten has] a novelist's feel for the texture of life.’ The Sydney Morning Herald

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateMay 30, 2016
    ISBN9781925307504
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    A Long Time Coming: essays on ageing
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    Melanie Joosten

    Melanie Joosten's debut novel, Berlin Syndrome, saw her named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist and receive the Kathleen Mitchell Award; it has since been made into a motion picture directed by Cate Shortland. In 2016, she published the essay collection A Long Time Coming. Her work appears in various publications, including Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Best Australian Stories 2014, and Going Down Swinging.

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