Place Called Canterbury Tales of the New Old Age in America

Name: Place Called Canterbury Tales of the New Old Age in America
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ISBN: 9780143115304

ISBN-10: 0143115308

ISBN-13: 9780143115304

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Authors: Dudley Clendinen

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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 Canterburyis both a journalist’s account of the last years of the Greatest…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Dudley Clendinenhas been a national correspondent and editorial writer forThe New York Times.He is the editor of a book of essays,The Prevailing South,and the author of the text of a book of photographs,Homeless in America.He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.



Introduction: Canterbury and the New Old Age



Good-bye, Mother, Hello



The Importance of the Moment



A Place Unto Itself



A Reason to Be Alive



The Cocktail Hour



Last Communion



The Dining Room Waltz



In Case of Fire



Going Home



The Plumbing Problem



Meanwhile, Back in the Tower



Looking for a Man



Sex and Satisfaction



"Laugh, Even If Your Heart Is Breaking"



Sleeping with the Sweetso



When They Were Children



When They Were in Love



Body Parts



War and Survival



I Can't Find My Wife



The Best-Laid Plans



Miss Osama



He Wants Our Ashes


Epilogue: Hello, Mother, Good-bye


Acknowledgments