Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his heart, Herz finds himself also blessed with a stirring sense of exhilaration. After a lifetime of deferring to others’ stronger wills, he faces a future of possibility, the only constraint the deeply ingrained habits of his mind. Profound and deeply resonant, Making Things Better explores the quandaries of aging, longing, and self-discovery with transfixing precision and spellbinding acuity.
- ISBN10 1585473197
- ISBN13 9781585473199
- Publish Date 1 July 2003 (first published 7 January 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Center Point
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English