Going
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A quietly devastating work of literary fiction, Going chronicles the final chapter in the life of an aging man confronting mortality, memory, and the slow unraveling of a life once fully lived. Sumner Locke Elliott, celebrated for his deeply humane and psychologically precise prose, presents an intimate portrait of a character navigating the indignities and unexpected grace notes of old age with unflinching honesty. The novel's tone is elegiac yet unsentimental, balancing tenderness with a sharp awareness of how time reshapes identity and relationships. Elliott illustrates, with characteristic restraint and emotional intelligence, the quiet courage required simply to keep going when the world has largely moved on without you.
Author: Sumner Locke Elliott
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Macmillan
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A quietly devastating work of literary fiction, Going chronicles the final chapter in the life of an aging man confronting mortality, memory, and the slow unraveling of a life once fully lived. Sumner Locke Elliott, celebrated for his deeply humane and psychologically precise prose, presents an intimate portrait of a character navigating the indignities and unexpected grace notes of old age with unflinching honesty. The novel's tone is elegiac yet unsentimental, balancing tenderness with a sharp awareness of how time reshapes identity and relationships. Elliott illustrates, with characteristic restraint and emotional intelligence, the quiet courage required simply to keep going when the world has largely moved on without you.