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.