<p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Old Guy Goes</em></p>

<p>Spanning four decades, <em>The Old Guy Goes</em> tells the story of a college teacher from his prime at age forty surrounded by admiring students to his death at eighty surrounded by loving family. &nbsp;</p>

<p>In this poignant novel, author Keith Elkins is speaking to his contemporaries -- he&rsquo;s eighty-five&mdash;as well as to their loved ones about a life well lived.&nbsp; Eldred Duker</p>

<p>stubbornly fights both cognitive and physical decline until he dies. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Elkins set out to write a short story about something scary that could quite plausibly happen to him. Instead of being terrified or depressed, he found the exercise therapeutic. &nbsp;So he wrote more and more stories about growing old and discovered he&rsquo;d written <em>The Old Guy Goes</em>. <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></p>

<p>At the end, the old guy goes with satisfaction.&nbsp; &nbsp;And the reader will feel the same in turning the last page.</p>