Literature and Aging: An Anthology Book

	Preface
	Editors' Statements
1	Aging and Identity
	Introduction	3
	Monet Refuses the Operation	5
	Next Day	7
	A Worn Path	9
	A Clean, Well-Lighted Place	16
	The Workhouse Ward	20
	The Space Crone	31
	Mr. Flood's Party	35
	An Old Man's Winter Night	37
	Provide, Provide	38
	A Woman Alone	39
	Virginia Portrait	41
	Miss Rosie	43
	A Lady	44
	On A Winter Night	45
	How to be Old	46
	Old	47
	Fortitude	48
	The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	74
2	Aging and Love
	Introduction	85
	The Pleasures of Old Age	87
	Medicine	88
	Now, Before the End, I Think	89
	The Bean Eaters	90
	Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	91
	from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower	92
	We Are Nighttime Travelers	96
	Grandma's Got a Wig	108
	In Retirement	109
	Epstein	117
	The Linden Tree	134
	Fallback	146
3	Aging and the Family
	Introduction	151
	Tell Me A Riddle	153
	Porte-Cochere	184
	Everything That Rises Must Converge	192
	The Jewbird	205
	Maggie of the Green Bottles	213
	from The Joy Luck Club	219
	Grandfather in the Old Men's Home	236
	My Father-in-Law's Contract	237
	Stroke	239
	Grandmother and Grandson	240
	A Conversation with My Father	242
	The Sandbox	247
	The 90th Year	257
	The Stroke	259
	Strokes	260
	Grandmother's Stroke	261
	Sequel	262
	Appropriate Affect	271
	Spelling	281
4	Aging and the Community
	Introduction	295
	from Emperor of the Air	297
	The Very Old	308
	Near the Old People's Home	309
	He Makes a House Call	310
	Ancient Gentility	312
	To Hell with Dying	315
	Toenails	321
	Misery	326
	A Visit of Charity	331
	Dillinger in Hollywood	336
	Idiots First	347
	What You Hear From 'Em?	355
	Old Doc Rivers	368
	Leaving the Yellow House	388
	The Black and White	415
	About the Authors	421
	Permissions Acknowledgments	427
	Index	433