Tales from Rhapsody Home: Or What They Don't Tell You About Senior Living

Gould, John

ISBN 10: 1565122801 / ISBN 13: 9781565122802

Published by Algonquin Books, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tales from Rhapsody Home: Or What They Don't Tell You About Senior Living
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565122801
• ISBN 13: 9781565122802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Down East Yankee John Gould, age ninety-two, has spent most of the last century observing and writing about the human condition. Now he presents a whole new perspective on life as he leads us into the brave new world of the assisted-living facility. Charming, sarcastic, despairing, flip, taciturn, erudite, and altogether wonderful--with a razor sharp wit and a knack for turning a phrase--Mr. Gould is an American original and a perfect tour guide. Whether he's complaining to management about his apartment windows that don't open or socializing with the other "inmates" at happy hour; whether wondering why they put a napkin over the stone-cold bread at dinner or taking comfort in the memories ("making do with the reruns") of his loving and eccentric collection of old friends and colleagues from Maine, Mr. Gould proves that you can write a funny book about a serious subject, namely, how we treat our elderly.

About the Author

John Gould has lived his whole life in Maine. He is the author of twenty-nine books, most of them about the people and character of his home state. Now ninety-two and still an active journalist, turning out his weekly column (which began in 1942) in the Christian Science Monitor, Mr. Gould has lived with his wife in the real Rhapsody Home for five years.