A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America |
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| Authors: | Clendinen, Dudley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | BIO026000, FAM005000, SOC013000 |
| ISBN: | 9781440629488, Related ISBNs: 0143115308, 0670018848, 144062948X, 9780143115304, 9780670018840 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 400, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: 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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