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The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis. The Old Devils are aged drinking partners whose number is enlarged and enlivened when poet Alun Weaver and his wife Rhiannon return to Wales.  Like pebbles dropped into a still pond, the Weavers set off a series of emotional waves that are still breaking at novel's end. [From Library Journal]

Ending Up by Kingsley Amis. The title refers to how we spend our retirement years, often called "golden," though in Kingsley Amis' hands anything but. At Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage a clutch of oldsters, brought together more by ill fortune than blood or love, struggles with problems that range from penury to prostate. That's the good news. The rest is Amis as usual, providing fun for himself and his readers at the expense of his characters.

Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, working in a local bookstore - a far cry from the brilliant academic career he'd begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the charismatic Harry Brightman, whom fate has also brought to the "ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York." Through Tom and Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances - not to mention a stray relative or two - and leads him to a reckoning with his past."

Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster. An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues. Determining that he is locked in, the man - identified only as Mr. Blank - begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize.  All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, documenting his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching.

Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac. At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevie`ve, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was -- at first -- afforded special treatment from the Madame. But now something is clearly amiss in his financial affairs, and his increasingly tawdry appearance makes him a subject of ridicule in the household. [Downloadable from NetLibrary]

About Schmidt by Louis Begley. [AudioCassette] Albert Schmidt is a button-down lawyer of the old school. But now, after years of careful management, his life is slowly unraveling. His beloved wife has recently died. He stumbles -- or is he being pushed? -- into early retirement. And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of, for reasons he can scarcely admit, even to himself. As Schmidt gropes for resolutions, he finds unexpected hope in an intense passion that comes out of the blue.  Downloadable from NetLibrary

Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley. Recently widowed, Albert Schmidt has triumphantly rediscovered domestic bliss in the Hamptons with Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress who is younger than his daughter. Schmidt is content with keeping his own hours and steering his own course, even as he becomes entertained—and increasingly ensnared— by the odd billionaire Michael Mansour.  Downloadable from NetLibrary

Making Things Better by Anita Brookner. A masterly new novel about the self-discoveries that come with maturity, and the eternal question confronted by people of all ages: What will I do with the rest of my life? In this richly written, emotionally revealing novel, Brookner works a spell on the reader (The Washington Post Book World), as a man finds himself contemplating the difficult life questions: How is it all going to work out? What shall I do before the end?  [Large type]

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns. The fabric of Southern community life at the turn-of-the-century is rendered in the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Georgia. A May-December romance scandalizes the rural community as one of the town's leading citizens, E. Rucker Blakeslee, marries a milliner employed at his store. The nuptials occur only three weeks after the death of Miss Mattie Lou, his wife of thirtysix years. The marriage brings not only the disapproval of the townsfolk but of his two married daughters as well. An emerging portrait of love amid scorn is recounted by Rucker's fourteen-yearold grandson, Will Tweedy. Also in [LARGE TYPE] [Audiocassettes] and [Paperback]

A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin.  It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now ninety-three, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse, where his memories and intellect begin to go adrift. He lives with a housekeeper and her young son, Roger, whose patient, respectful demeanor stirs paternal affection in Holmes. Holmes has settled into the routine of tending his apiary, writing in journals, and grappling with the diminishing powers of his razor-sharp mind, when Roger comes upon a case hitherto unknown. It is that of a Mrs. Keller, the long-ago object of Holmes' deep - and never acknowledged - infatuation.

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines. Set on a Louisiana sugar cane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "The best written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade".--"Village Voice". [AudioCassette] Ernest Gaines reads excerpts from A gathering of old men

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell."  [PlayAway - Digital Book], [Downloadable from OverDrive], [Large Type] or [CD-Spoken]

East of the Mountains by David Guterson. Ben Givens is a retired heart surgeon who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Deciding to take charge of his own demise, Ben travels into the wild country of Washington state with his two dogs and his father's Winchester, to hunt one last time and then to end his life on his own terms. But, as with all quests, the Fates intervene. A car wreck introduces him to various helpers and hindrances, and gradually Ben undertakes a journey back through his own past. [Large Type], [AudioCassette/Unabridged], [AudioCassette/Abridged], [CD-Spoken]

Simon's Night by Jon Hassler. [Large Type] At the age of seventy-six, just five days younger than the century, Simon Shea, retired professor of English literature, decides that it is time to "bank his fires" and begin his retirement from life. After thirty-five years of solitary, self-sufficient living in his beloved cottage on the banks of Badbattle River, Simon fears that he is losing his memory: he's lost his mail someplace between the mailbox and the front door; he's lost his car in St. Paul; and once he even lost his way home. When he absentmindedly set his kitchen on fire one day, the fright is too much. He packs his bags, some books, and his Persian rug and checks into the Norman Home, determined to be content. Luckily, the decision in not irrevocable.

Closing Time by Joseph Heller. Written as a sequel to the popular Catch-22, it takes place in New York City in the 1990s, and revisits some characters of the original, including Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder and Chaplain Tappman. At the end of Closing Time, both Yossarian and the chaplain apparently decide to commit passive suicide. AudioCassette/Abridged read by Elliot Gould.

Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man by Joseph Heller. This slim posthumous novel, playing blithely with the idea of an elderly novelist in search of a subject, is the last thing the author of Catch-22 left us. Although not a profound leave-taking, it is nonetheless a pleasant reminder of the author's great charm and fluency. Eugene Pota, Heller's alter ego here, rifles the back corners of his mind for a new novel that will restore to him some of the luster that shone from his earlier efforts.

The Distance From Normandy by Jonathan Hull. Mead parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and fought his way to Germany through some of the most brutal violence of World War II. But his most difficult battle was lost years later, when his beloved wife, Sophie, succumbed to cancer. Since then, he has waged a private war against both loneliness and the memory of a day in 1945 that went horribly wrong - and has haunted him ever since. His grandson, Andrew, a scared and angry high school sophomore, has been expelled and is heading down a path of self-destruction. Mead agrees to take the boy in for three weeks to set him right.

Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull. In a nursing home in California, WWI vet Patrick Delaney is fighting new battles: against old age (he's 81), stomach cancer and the knowledge of his encroaching death. This earnest, elegant first novel takes the form of Patrick's diary, in which he details the humbling infirmities of an aging body and looks back at the defining moments of his life--the war itself, when he lost his best friend, Daniel, and the brief but intense love affair he had 10 years later with Daniel's grieving lover, Julia. [Large Type]

To Dance With the White Dog by Terry Kay. Moving story of love, grief, and coming to terms with death, this is the story of elderly Sam Peek, who is mourning the death of his beloved wife when a mysterious white dog appears. [VideoRecording]

The Man Who Rode Midnight by Elmer Kelton. Aging cowboy and bronco-buster Wes Hendricks just wants to be left alone on his poor ranch, even when town developers offer him big money to sell it. Wes' grandson reluctantly tries to convince him to give up his home, but that was before he, too, succumbs to the ranch's -- and a young cowgirl's -- wild beauty. [Large Type]

Embers by Sandor Marai. A castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the 1930s. Two men, inseparable in their youth, meet for the first time in forty-one years. They have spent their lives waiting for this moment. Four decades earlier a murky, traumatic event - something to do with a betrayal, and a woman - led to their sudden separation. Now, as their lives draw to a close, the devastating truth about that moment will be revealed. EMBERS is a masterpiece - an unforgettable story of passion, fidelity, truth and deception. ocm52480327 [CD-Spoken]

ocm58431922 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garci´a Marqez. On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist -- an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor -- decides to give himself "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." The virgin, whom an old madam procures for him, is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossoms into a transforming year. It is a year in which he relives, in a rush of memories, his lifetime of (paid-for) sexual adventures and experiences a revelation that brings him to the edge of dying-not of old age, but, at long last, of uncorrupted love. ocm61708502 [Large Type] ocm56829798 [en espanol]

ocm56420399 Rules for Old Men by Peter Pouncey. Waiting in a house on the Cape "older than the Republic," Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days. The most important rule, to "tell a story to its end," spurs the old Scot to invent a strange and gripping tale of men in the trenches of the First World War. This invented tale of the Great War prompts MacIver's memories of his own role in World War II and of Vietnam, where his son David served; and both stories and memories alike are lit by the presence of Margaret, his wife. ocm57573747 [Large Type]

ocm62330606 Everyman by Phillip Roth. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.  ocm68208275 [AudioCassette] ocm68568324 CD-Spoken ocm69108828 [Downloadable from Net Library]

ocm56128607 Old Man's War by John Scalzi. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce - and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place. So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding." "Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. "John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine - and what he will become is far stranger

ocm34321554 The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. A man picks up a faded, well-worn notebook and begins reading to a frail elderly woman, his voice recalling the heartbreaking story of two star-crossed lovers and their poignant, bittersweet journey to happiness. So begins this touching novel that is a dual tale of love lost and found, and of a man's gentle battle to reach an aging woman who cannot remember the most cherished moments of her life. ocm35674494 [audiocassette/abridged] ocm36327382 or ocn181368908 [Large Type] ocm55049537 CD-SPOKEN ocm55637271 [audiocassette/unabridged] ocm56664780 DVD-Video ocm57928374 featuring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands ocm38262560 paperback.

ocm40632254 A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. 57-year-old Landon Carter spirits himself back to his fateful senior year in high school in Beaufort, N.C., when he was an archetypal troublemaking teenager of the 1950s, changed forever by an unexpected first love.  ocm42592656 [audiocassette/abridged] ocm41488619 [Large Type] ocm42907336 [Audiocassette/Unabridged] ocm45106116 [Large Type] ocm49622914 DVD-Video featuring Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah.

ocm24953754 oe ocm00127553 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--the magnificent story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead.

ocm34472960 Last Orders by Graham Swift. A subtle yet piercing story about the ways in which friendship and love are shaped by the past and by fate. At its center is a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. When one of the group dies, the survivors are compelled to take stock. ocm50395625 DVD-Video featuring Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hennings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren -->