Old Friends (Unabridged‪)‬

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.