{"product_id":"a-place-called-canterbury-tales-of-the-new-old-age-in-america-9780143115304","title":"A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America","description":"An \"affectionate, touchingly empathetic\" (Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) 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. \u003ci\u003eA Place Called Canterbury\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143115304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.48w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/16\/2009 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dudley Clendinen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378657362101,"sku":"9780143115304","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_726319fe-1d2e-42e7-bb30-3d3cafe5beb7.jpg?v=1753159308","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-place-called-canterbury-tales-of-the-new-old-age-in-america-9780143115304","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}