100 Uplifting Stories for Seniors

Real Moments from the 1940s to the 1990s - Large Print, Easy to Read, Written for Adults and Never Childish (A Gift Book for Elderly Women and Men)

von Patricia Tanaka

270 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

You remember more than you think.

A dollar spent at Gimbels the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in 1945. A frozen dinner that cost ninety-eight cents and took twenty-five minutes. A queue around the block in May of 1977. The night the whole street crowded into whoever had the biggest television set.

A hundred short stories. About two and a half minutes each.

From the 1940s through the 1990s - the decades you lived through, told one small moment at a time. A woman sewing a service flag with a crooked star. A man who queues ninety minutes for a spring that walks downstairs. A grandmother who reaches out of her armchair to put one hand on a Twister mat. An eleven-year-old who watches the moon landing and remembers the room instead of the screen.

Everything in these stories really happened.

The prices, the dates, the programmes, the products. Where a story says a television dinner cost ninety-eight cents and took twenty-five minutes, that is what it cost and how long it took. The people are invented. The world they move through is not - and the book tells you so plainly rather than leaving you to wonder.

Written for grown-ups.

No baby talk. No lesson tacked on the end. No story that treats a reader as though the years took something away. Plain words carrying adult subjects - work, money, marriage, the things people didn't say to each other.

Inside: - A hundred stories across six decades- A question after every one, written to be asked out loud- Real dates, real prices, real programmes- Start anywhere - nothing depends on what came before>A gift that comes with something to say.

One story is about the right length for a visit. The question at the end is there so you have somewhere to start - for reading alone, reading together, or handing to someone you don't quite know how to begin a conversation with.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798173848031
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: Independently published