{"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":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dudley Clendinen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Gerontology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408452444311,"sku":"9780143115304","price":2169.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143115304.webp?v=1767309927","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-place-called-canterbury-tales-of-the-new-old-age-in-america-9780143115304","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}