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Tales from Rhapsody Home: Or What They Don’t Tell You About Senior Living (Select Series)
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Tales from Rhapsody Home: Or What They Don’t Tell You About Senior Living (Select Series)
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.
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David J. Loftus · May 15, 2010 at 7:16 am
Review by David J. Loftus for Tales from Rhapsody Home: Or What They Don’t Tell You About Senior Living (Select Series)
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Odds are this is the best book by a nonagenarian you are likely to read this year. Gould, a Down East Yankee and columnist for the Christian Science Monitor since 1942, offers a collection of short commentaries from an assisted living center. The book isn’t simply a humorous indictment of the foibles and peculiarities of life in a retirement home (though there is plenty of that, from comments about food to the saga of the unopenable window and the familiar refrain “There is nothing to be done about it”). The author ranges across all his 92 years to draw on memories of doctors, raising bees with his Grandfather, and the perfect tomato.This is a great book for reading out loud, my wife and I found — the sentences tend to be short and simple, belying the emotional nuances and complexity of the thoughts underneath. The author is not a simple, genteel sort, despite the appearance of his prose. There are passages on the joys of farting humor, reproductions of the light verse with which he lampooned the failures of the management (these never survived more than three minutes on the bulletin board because they “offended the staff”), and a truly fierce (but nevertheless funny) indictment of the insurance industry.Think of this book as Robert Fulghum in a retirement home and you’ll be close to it.
Linda L. Lapointe · May 15, 2010 at 7:51 am
Review by Linda L. Lapointe for Tales from Rhapsody Home: Or What They Don’t Tell You About Senior Living (Select Series)
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A long term care and assisted living administrator for manyyears, this book amused me, unnerved me, angered me. I hooted withlaughter and got choked up with sympathy. A gifted wordsmith and storyteller both, Gould spun a tale I couldn’t put down. I thoroughlyenjoyed digesting his delicious words and phrases. Educational,entertaining and absorbing; a must read for any aged reader. LindaLaPointe,MRA,…
Peter Kushkowski · May 15, 2010 at 8:41 am
Review by Peter Kushkowski for Tales from Rhapsody Home: Or What They Don’t Tell You About Senior Living (Select Series)
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I purchased my copy of John Gould’s “Rhapsody Home” when vacationing on midcoast Maine near his hometown of Rockland. Knowing that Gould was somewhere nearby made the reading that much more meaningful for me. I also related in these ways: There may be a ‘Rhapsody Home’ in my not too distant future. Also, unable to contain my enthuisiasm for the book, I read select passages aloud to my wife who retired as the head RN at a ‘Rhapsody Home.’ The nature of her responses validated for me the authenticity of John Gould’s rhapsodic musings.