Drabble, Margaret
Summary: "A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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Summary: Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: At 91 years old, Ptolemy Grey is one of the world's forgotten. Marooned in a cluttered Los Angeles apartment, he sinks deeper into dementia and the past. Then he meets seventeen-year-old Robyn and they form a bond that reinvigorates his world, but as he recaptures his clarity of mind, he also unlocks the secrets he has carried for decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSPouncey, Peter R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: BlueHen Books 2001
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Summary: In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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Summary: Presents the story of an injured woman who meditates on her complicated relationship with a best friend when a man they believed was dead joins her retirement community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEETyler, Anne.
Summary: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009