Place Called Canterbury

An affectionate touchingly empathetic (Janet Maslin <i>The New York Times</i>) 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. <i>A Place Called Canterbury</i> 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.