A review by bobbo49
This Old Man: All in Pieces by Roger Angell

4.0

The "pieces" are a wide variety of essays and talks and letters and notes by Angell over many years, on an equally broad range of topics - but the clear foci are (a) literature and literati (many from his time as an editor at the New Yorker), (b) baseball, and (c) aging. Angell can be funny, poignant, brilliantly observant, critical, thoughtful - or all of the above at once. As is only to be expected in such a compilation, the quality is somewhat uneven, and it's hard to imagine that anyone who doesn't enjoy reading about all three major topics (noted above) would really like the assemblage, for me the book was a very enjoyable piece of time travel.