Thinking It Through: Reflections Past Eighty

by Stanley E. Ely

He started as a journalist in high school, but it was years before writing and becoming a gay man linked up as fundamental aspects of Stanley Ely's life. Now mid-80s, Ely has compiled this insightful collection of essays on topics familiar to everyone: friends, travel, army, city life, family, neighborhood - plus events that contributed to his emerging life as a gay man.

Step into these short stories and share experiences from a life that has grown richer in human contact alongside loss that inevitably accompanies age. Enlivening the book are 45 photographs of people whose lives have been entwined with Ely's.

Genres: Book Club

207 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017