Learn to think about being old…

Book review:

Old Friends

by Tracy Kidder (b1945)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993

352 pages

Tracy Kidder is an old friend, and I welcome any opportunity to read something he wrote. There is vigor and bitter reality and calm truth and pulsing delight in his stories.

Whatever your age, try Old Friends. You’re going to be someone’s old friend, sooner or later. You can learn to think about how it’s going to be.

Like Kidder’s other books, Old Friends is in its own category. Nevertheless, it has themes you’ll find in his other books. It contains some kinds of the loneliness expressed in Strength in What Remains (2009), and it echoes some of the humanity that pervades Among Schoolchildren (1989).

You’ll be surprised as you get to know Lou and Joe and the others.

They’re like people you already know, and like real people you’re going to get to know.

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Mary Jane Oliver, R. I. P.

She wrote so many of the right words…

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