Never Say Die: The Myth of the New Old Age - Softcover

"If old age isn't for sissies, neither is Susan Jacoby's tough-minded and important book. . . which demolishes popular myths that we can 'cure' the 'disease' of aging." --The Washington Post

"For those of us who are old, Susan Jacoby's candor about old age is bracing; for those not yet old, Never Say Die should provide an unsentimental education for the years to come." -Philip Roth

"Jacoby's tough-minded refusal to buy the rosy image painted by advertisers and the 'anti-aging industry'--a greedy crowd that includes bogus health gurus, pill pushers and other medical hucksters--is empowering." --Time

"Jacoby is sharp and shoots straight." --The New Yorker

"[A] book that will change the way you think about growing old. . . . In the end, and in ways not recognized at the beginning of the book, Never Say Die is life-affirming." --Washington Independent Review of Books

"Mixes rigorous reportage and tart-tongued criticism with memoir and history, slashing through romanticized versions of the golden years and delivering tough truths." --Newsday

"Jacoby cuts through the fog of bromides and half-truths enveloping the discussion of aging, shines a light on issues long neglected and offers cogent solutions to pressing problems." --The Miami Herald

"In this beautifully crafted book, [Jacoby] punctures the promises that aging will eventually be 'cured' either by a wonder drug or though positive thinking. The good news is that if we wake up from our delusions we may be better able to grow old with dignity." -Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

"Jacoby's book, which mixes the intellectual and the emotional, academic studies and personal anecdotes, is intentionally contentious. . .That is just as it should be. Jacoby does not want to serve as a destroyer of hope. Thank goodness, however, that she is willing to be perceived as a destroyer of false hope." --Seattle Times

"Lively, carefully researched. . . . [Jacoby] writes with both passion and reason." --St. Petersburg Times

"Eloquent. . . . [Jacoby] is courageously right. . . . One can hope that her impassioned, closely argued tract gains a serious hearing among her fellow boomers." --Columbia Journalism Review

"Never Say Die is a beautifully written, clear-eyed, and deeply compassionate book." --Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape and The End of Faith.