About this title: This is an account of the final moments of our lives - the room, the bed, the companions, the last faces we see, the last voices we hear, our last thoughts. For more than a year, Tracy Kidder spent most of his time at Linda Manor, a nursing home, befriending, eating with, being entertained by 121 different people, each living out life's closing stages. What did he discover? 121 individuals - actors, cranks, charmers, comedians, optimists, fatalists. He discovered who the Nudniks were, what it is to Stupidivise and the function of the Vampire Lady. And, most importantly, he discovered Lou, a ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781568950433ISBN:1568950438
Description: Very Good. -Hardcover-Clear mylar protects dust cover-Ex-Library book, has usual Stamps and markings consistent with Library Books. read more
Binding: Audio Cassette
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780453008853ISBN:0453008852
Description: Good. Audio Book (Cassettes) 0453008852. Audio book in original box with two cassettes. One end of box has a torn flap. Tested for the first couple of minutes per tape. Abridged. 3 hours. Read by the author. Price on box is $16.00. read more
Binding: Audio Cassette
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Date Published: 1994-05-01
ISBN-13:9780453008853ISBN:0453008852
Description: Excellent Condition-Case/Excellent Condition. AudioBook, Cassettes, Excellent Condition, includes original tapes (2), artwork/inserts & cases, from a private collection. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1989
Description: Dust Jacket Included. First edition, 1st Printing. FINE (no names, bookplates, remainder marks, or writing of any kind, etc. ), with FINE dustjacket (which still has the "$22, 95" price intact). As new--unread. read more
Description: Kidder, Tracy., Houghton Mifflin 'A Richard Todd Book', nd (1993), c1993, 1st Edition, boards & cloth w/gilt spine titles, fine w/dj, 352 pp, tall 8vo, 'Two old men in a little room. Together they represent some one hundred and sixty years of memory, of h. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton
Date Published: 1993
Description: SIGNED. Fine and bright in near fine dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Affectionately inscribed on the full title page and signed by the author. read more
Description: Very Good. 0453008852 Box and Tapes in Good Condition/ /"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin, New York
Date Published: 1993
Description: Very Fine in Very Fine jacket. Author is Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear mylar cover. read more
Description: Kidder, Tracy., Houghton Mifflin Co., 'A Richard Todd Book', 1993, c1993, 1st Edition, boards & cloth, fine w/dj, 352 pps, tall 8vo, 'Two old men in a little room. Together they represent some one hundred and twenty years of memory, of hope and...' read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Books On Tape, Newport Beach, CA
Date Published: 1994
Description: Hardcover, FINE (NEAR) SIX AUDIO CASSETTES IN FITTED HARD PLASTIC CASE WITH PICTORIAL INSERTS. Light edge and spine end rub on case. Read by Alexander Adams. Six (1 1/2 hour cassettes). Two old men in a little room. They are strangers thrust together as roommates in a nursing home. On discovering that the problem of Linda Manor is "the universal problem of separateness, the tow movingly set about solving it, with comradarie and friendship, and ultimately love., read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780395710883ISBN:039571088X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Read once very good condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. I ship daily! read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780395710883ISBN:039571088X
Description: Nursing Homes and the Aged-United States-Case Studies. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. 1. pp. 352. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1989
Description: Dust Jacket Included. Signed by Author(s) First edition, 1st printing. SIGNED BY KIDDER on the title page. FINE (no names, bookplates, remainder marks, or writing of any kind, etc. ), with FINE dustjacket (with the "$22.95" price intact). read more
"This book was very difficult for me to get through, not because it was poorly written but quite the contrary. Kidder's lucent prose brings the sadness and loneliness of the nursing home to vivid life. It's possible that reading this soon after my own grandmother died, much diminished, was unwise. It's haunting and frightening and well-done but I can't say I liked it. I suffered through it in an agony of projection and reflection and grief. Even so, I recommend it- if for nothing else than to bring you into the present, wonderful moment. Take big bites now, before it's too late."
"I like Tracy Kidder's works. This was a tender story about two men rooming together at a nursing home in western Mass. Sweet, poignant, and a little tough to read at times."
"This description of the lives of nursing home residents is supposed to be insightful into the lives of older people. I thought it was shallow and "popcorn""
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