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A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Contributor(s): Clendinen, Dudley (Author)

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ISBN: 0143115308     ISBN-13: 9780143115304
Publisher: Penguin Books
OUR PRICE: $22.80  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2009
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Annotation: Clendinen has written a deeply moving, often hilarious look at how the oldest Americans are coping with the reality of living longer.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Gerontology
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Later Years
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: 305.260
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.48" W x 8.38" L (0.74 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Generational Orientation - Elderly/Aged
- Geographic Orientation - Florida
- Cultural Region - South Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
Features: Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 08/16/2009 pg. 20
 
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Publisher Description:
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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