Old Friends

Summary

Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for

The Soul of a New Machine.

House and

Among Schoolchildren were national best sellers. 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.

©1994 Tracy Kidder (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.