How to Be an Old Person
Everything to Know for the Newly Old, Retiring, Elderly, or Considering
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Congratulations! You made it! You're an Old Person!
But entering into your golden years isn't all hard candy and unreserved flatulence. It takes skill and finesse, training and education, to become a proper Old Person. Fortunately, there's a guide-not in the form of some newfangled Facebook movie, but an honest-to-God, hold-it-in-your-wrinkly-withered-hands BOOK-that'll help you navigate the perilous and confusing new world of cootdom. Full of nifty diagrams, illustrations, and succinctly written so you don't forget what you're reading partway through, How to Be an Old Person, by Brian Boone (Vulture, Great Men of Science) will tell you all you need to know about this new season of life!
Brian Boone
BRIAN BOONE is the author of I Love Rock n' Roll (Except When I Hate It) and many other books about everything from inventions to paper airplanes to magic to TV. He's written jokes for lots of funny websites and he lives in Oregon with his family. AMANDA BRACK has a passion for drawing and illustration, and enjoys the creativity of working on a wide variety of projects in her freelance career. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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