In her last novel, "Luck," the action revolved around a funeral parlour after one main character woke up to find her husband dead beside her. Also one of those books that makes me wonder if people I know are cheating on their spouses since, if literature is to be believed, it's happening a lot more than I realize. Being of that age myself, I found this book fascinating, especially in terms of the inner workings of the main characters. In 1992 she was given the Marian Engel Award.

By Bruce Feiler. This book makes you sit back and think about your future and where will you be when you hit retirement age.Joan Barfoot has taken her immense talents in a curiously morbid direction recently. It is the story of a very interesting group of seniors living in a senior's residence and how they all come together to form their own little 'family' even though they did not have much to do with each other in their earlier lives. On the same night, Andy is accused of drunk driving, resulting in the ... There’s well to do Chairlady of every charity board in town, wife of lawyer Sylvia who moves herself in unaided by, indeed without telling her only daughter Nancy. I really enjoyed the story and the characters Barfoot created.DNF - I found I had to keep going back and re-reading so much of this book to make sense of it that I gave up. Although, maybe that is the point.This book made literally zero impact on my life and will soon be forgotten. Looking for some great streaming picks? Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Life in a newly opened retirement home brings 4 people together into a close-knit friendship. It is the story of a very interesting group of seniors living in a senior's residence and how they all come together to form their own little 'family' even though they did not have much to do with each other in their earlier lives. A surprise twist when the age-old euthanasia debate comes up and the toughest form test of friendship is put to the test. I think that’s just because of a new drug my doctor is trying, but in a way it’s also how I tend to see life: in a big curve, like a rainbow. Then I realized it wasn't like that, when it was so slow to develop. I know it can be a bit boring listening to someone like me."

by Knopf Canada Life, aging, friendship, hope...thought provoking and a bit macabre but an okay read. As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. Started well but dragged a bit towards the end.A group of people moving into a new retirement home discover past connections, contemplate life and hatch a plot. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.

The book's theme is the end of life and the problems of declining physical and mental capacities and the attendant loss of confidence and dignity. It creeps by at the same mundane pace despite the intrigue of a possible murder/suicide.

Barfoot writes well and, in this book, develops the characters fully. Even though it covers past experiences they were less proud of, it didn't really seem like it was as regret but just more of a looking back on one's life story "as is".

The story was fine but the style was awful.interesting view of old age. Exit Lines is an anticlimactic tale of four individuals in a nursing style home who reminisce on their younger years while trying to convince Ruth, the most healthiest one, not to kill herself. In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn’s plastic plants, inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities, all familiar to any reader who has had. The book is concerned with friendships, relationships with adult children, aging.

Her 2001 novel, Critical Injuries, was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2001 Trillium Book Award. A subject that may have put me off kept me entranced. Her novels include Luck in 2005, nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, as well as Abra, which won the Books in Canada first novels award, Dancing in the Dark, which became an award-winning Canadian entry in the Cannes and Toronto Joan Barfoot is an award-winning novelist whose work has been compared internationally with that of Anne Tyler, Carol Shields, Margaret Drabble and Margaret Atwood. It sounded intriguing, but I found it boring and hard to get through.This novel is set in a seniors home.



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