The Nostalgia Factory

By Douwe Draaisma,

Book cover of The Nostalgia Factory: Memory, Time and Ageing

Book description

With a storyteller's gift and a scientist's insights, Draaisma celebrates the unique pleasures of the aging memory

You cannot call to mind the name of a man you have known for 30 years. You walk into a room and forget what you came for. What is the name of that…

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1 author picked The Nostalgia Factory as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Drowse Draaisma is a memory specialist, and this lucid, eloquent and humorous book celebrates the rich and fruitful pleasures of memory in later life (and takes the sting out of the natural forgetfulness that comes as we grow older). It combines science, psychology, anecdotes, advice, and it is above all a work of spirit and optimism.  

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