Chronicles the lives of a group of senior citizens who spend their final days in a nursing home. In stories that are brutal, sad, grotesque, and sometimes comically absurd, the author reveals the solitary and enclosing world of the aged.
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Iris was married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but is now poor and eighty-two, and living in Port Ticonderoga. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life.
Charleen is a divorcee in her mid-thirties, with a son whom she loves, a blossoming relationship with a man, and friends who care about her. Charleen wonders how her life turned out the way it did. Is she a failure?
While recuperating from a broken leg, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard embarks on a search through history for the truth behind Richard III's alleged murder of his brother's children, in a classic of the mystery genre.
The gift of an oriental rug with a coded message woven into its border and the disappearance of a Turkish client start Nancy Drew on a new search for a missing mannequin.
Relates the chivalrous and romantic deeds of King Arthur, Launcelot, Gareth, Tristram, Galahad, and other knights of the Round Table.