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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 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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One of the most enjoyable and important books to cross our desks this year. Beautifully written . . . moving and humorous. Invaluable for anyone grappling with the challenges and opportunities in later life. -The Wall Street Journal A book that stands apart from so much of what is being written about aging in this country. -The Baltimore Sun a One of the most enjoyable and important books to cross our desks this year. Beautifully written . . . moving and humorous. Invaluable for anyone grappling with the challenges and opportunities in later life.a a The Wall Street Journal aA book that stands apart from so much of what is being written about aging in this country.a a The Baltimore Sun If you've ever had a mother, you will love this book. aRoy Blount Jr., author of Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South aCanterburyas walls rock with geriatrics who live every moment to its fullest, with tales of food from cloud-like biscuits before church, to snacks after sex and martinis with social debate. Through it all, the elegance and humor of a generation who laughed and loved through a depression and a great war, surviving to live and die with grace, will have you laughing and crying. You will love every morsel of the Canterbury tales.a aNathalie Dupree, Television Cooking host and Cookbook Author aClendinen has written a modern masterpiece. It isnat about old age. Itas about all of us, a brilliant celebration of what it means to be a human being. I laughed and wept and was changed by reading A Place Called Canterbury, Iam buying copies for my family, my friends, their parents, and all our children. It is a gift to be shared, this wonderful, wonderful book.a aLinda Ellerbee aClendinen has written a modern masterpiece. It isnat about old age. Itas about all of us, a brilliant celebration of what it means to be a human being. I laughed and wept and was changed by reading A Place Called Canterbury, Iam buying copies for my family, my friends, their parents, and all our children. It is a gift to be shared, this wonderful, wonderful book.a aLinda Ellerbee Clendinen has written a modern masterpiece. It isnt about old age. Its about all of us, a brilliant celebration of what it means to be a human being. I laughed and wept and was changed by reading A Place Called Canterbury, Im buying copies for my family, my friends, their parents, and all our children. It is a gift to be shared, this wonderful, wonderful book. Linda Ellerbee

One of the most enjoyable and important books to cross our desks this year. Beautifully written . . . moving and humorous. Invaluable for anyone grappling with the challenges and opportunities in later life. <br>- The Wall Street Journal <br> A book that stands apart from so much of what is being written about aging in this country. <br>- The Baltimore Sun

One of the most enjoyable and important books to cross our desks this year. Beautifully written . . . moving and humorous. Invaluable for anyone grappling with the challenges and opportunities in later life. <br>- The Wall Street Journal <br><br> A book that stands apart from so much of what is being written about aging in this country. <br>- The Baltimore Sun <br><br>

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