A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
by Clendinen, Dudley
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670018848
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018840
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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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
- Author
- Clendinen, Dudley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670018848
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018840
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- OLDER PEOPLE SOCIAL CONDITIONS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY AGING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Sciences / Sociology;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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