Old Friends, Tracy Kidder
Old Friends, Tracy Kidder
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Old Friends

Author: Tracy Kidder

Narrator: Lowell George Seibel

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/25/2008

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine. House and Among Schoolchildren were national bestsellers. Now this "crackerjack reporter with a common touch" (Philip Lopate, The Washington Post) has turned his talents to his most important and universal theme in this, a close-in study of old age in America. With care and exactitude, with the human compassion and humor for which he is famed, Kidder opens up a fascinating world to us that is, at the same time, foreign and compelling. The narrative takes place entirely in a nursing home and focuses on two old men struggling with their circumstances, their memories, and their mortality.

About Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Strength in What Remains, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder lives in Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melody on June 01, 2009

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......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on April 10, 2013

I love Tracey Kidder's book Among Schoolchildren. I recently reread it, and realized that he had a number of other titles I hadn't tried. So I reserved this one without really looking at what it was about. A couple of months ago, I fell and broke my hip. I had surgery, followed by several weeks reha......more

Goodreads review by David on May 28, 2017

What I liked about this book was the ability of Kidder to make you feel like the characters were alive and their thoughts and feelings were on the pages. A lot of emotion and thought-provoking information especially if you have a relative in a nursing home or even just an older friend or relative th......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on November 30, 2023

Not one of Kidder's best books (Mountains Beyond Mountains and Rough Sleepers remain my favorites). Nevertheless it is a good read. Since my husband and I are taking care of his 93 year old mother and we are not young ourselves, the book hit a little too close to home at times. It was nice to see pe......more

Goodreads review by Richard on December 08, 2018

Tracy Kidder is an old friend. I welcome any opportunity to read something he wrote. There is vigor and bitter reality and calm truth and pulsing delight in his stories. Whatever your age, try Old Friends. You’re going to be someone’s old friend, sooner or later. Learn to think about how it’s going t......more