A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
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Book details
- Author
- Dudley Clendinen
- Publisher
- Random House Books for Young Readers
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Pet Loss
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780143115304
- ISBN-10
- 0143115308
- Vendor: Mia Karts
A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
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ISBN: 0143115308
Author: Clendinen, Dudley
Condition: New
An "affectionate, touchingly empathetic" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) look at old age in America today Welcome to Canterbury Tower , an apartment building in Florida, where the residents are busy with friendships, love, sex, money, and gossip-and the average age is eightysix. Journalist Dudley Clendinen's mother moved to Canterbury in 1994, planning-like most the inhabitants-to spend her final years there. But life was not over yet for the feisty southern matron. There, she and her eccentric new friends lived out a soap opera of dignity, nerve, and humor otherwise known as the New Old Age. A Place Called Canterbury is both a journalist's account of the last years of the Greatest Generation and a son's rueful memoir of his mother. Entertaining and unsparing, it is essential reading for anyone with aging parents, and those wondering what their own old age might look like.
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