Abstract
Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis.
He’s about to fail the obligatory ‘older driver’ practical test for parallel parking more than five hundred millimetres from the curb. His beloved, dying wife of over sixty years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenage grandson wants to make desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine, the retirement home down the road, an Alcatraz for old people.
But when Arthur unexpectedly meets the mysterious, radical, eighty-something-year-old Robbie Johnson, he begins to see he's still got a whole lot more to learn: not only how to bribe his way into passing some of life’s more absurd tests, but how to live fully, how to behave badly, and how to love better.
He’s about to fail the obligatory ‘older driver’ practical test for parallel parking more than five hundred millimetres from the curb. His beloved, dying wife of over sixty years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenage grandson wants to make desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine, the retirement home down the road, an Alcatraz for old people.
But when Arthur unexpectedly meets the mysterious, radical, eighty-something-year-old Robbie Johnson, he begins to see he's still got a whole lot more to learn: not only how to bribe his way into passing some of life’s more absurd tests, but how to live fully, how to behave badly, and how to love better.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Audible |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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