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A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America : 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 eighty-six. 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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ISBN 13:9780143115304
ISBN 10:0143115308
Format:Paperback
Language:English
Pages:371
Size:8.35" l x 5.43" w x 0.94" h
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