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A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America Paperback - 2009
by Dudley Clendinen
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Clendinen has written a deeply moving, often hilarious look at how the oldestAmericans are coping with the reality of living longer.
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- Title A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
- Author Dudley Clendinen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin (Non-Classics), New York
- Date 2009-06-30
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0143115308
- ISBN 9780143115304 / 0143115308
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.38 x 5.48 x 0.88 in (21.29 x 13.92 x 2.24 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
- Geographic Orientation: Florida
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.260
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Summary
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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- New York Times Book Review, 08/16/2009, Page 20