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Self-help Aging

Old Is In

A Guide For Aging Boomers

by (author) Eric Nicol

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2004
Category
Aging, General, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459721296
    Publish Date
    Aug 2004
    List Price
    $7.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550025248
    Publish Date
    Aug 2004
    List Price
    $16.99

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Description

Is impotence contagious? At what age should a senior be surgically separated from his automobile, or obligated to donate his sex toys to the Salvation Army?

These and other timely questions are among those not answered in Eric Nicol’s latest cure for serious reading, Old Is In. This palsied opus responds to demographics warning that our Western society is about to be engulfed by a tidal wave of seniors.

How to cope? Is stoicism the answer? Hell, no! The best way to relieve the stiff upper lip is with a smile. And that prescription is filled, merrily, by Eric Nicol’s Old Is In.

About the author

Eric Nicol (1919-2011) was one of Canada's most beloved humourists. He was born December 28, 1919 in Kingston, Ontario, the son of William Nicol and Amelia Mannock Nicol. His family moved to Vancouver, BC in 1921, and - with the exception of a few years in Nelson, BC - Nicol spent the rest of his childhood there. He received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1941 and then completed three years service (RCAF) during World War II. After the war, Nicol returned to UBC for his M.A. in French Studies ('48) and spent one year in doctoral studies at Sorbonne. He then moved to London, England to write radio comedy series for Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly of the BBC from 1950-51. Nicol had started to write occasional columns for the Vancouver News Herald and the Vancouver Province during the war, while studying in Paris. He returned to Vancouver in 1951 to become a regular columnist with the Province, eventually producing some six thousand newspaper columns, several stage plays, more scripts for radio and television and more than thirty books - three of them winners of the Stephen Leacock Award for humour. He was the first recipient of the BC Gas Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the literary arts in 1995.

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Editorial Reviews

(A)warding-winning author, playwright, and newspaper columnist Eric Nicol has produced yet another highly satirical, amusing, and enjoyable book... If the energetic and witty Nicol is considered a role model for someone nearing his or her later years, then old is definitely in.

Canadian Book Review Annual